Japan's legendary Ama free-diving women still plumb the waters around Sugashima Island in search of abalone, turban shell and Ise spiny lobster. We glimpse the island through this extraordinary ...

The ama, or "sea women" of ... black abalone stir-fried with kohlrabi. Yamakawa is committed to preserving the ama tradition, often sourcing seafood directly from the divers, and he believes ...

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times Now however it is being made into a tourists playland and the girls who had been abalone divers now ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore ... When shell divers descended into the ocean, it is said they'd be met by another diver who held out an abalone to them.