A coastal town in western Japan has drawn ire on social media for using some of the coronavirus relief funds it was given by the government to build a statue of a giant squid in the hopes of boosting ...

A coastal town in western Japan is under fire for using hundreds of thousands of dollars designated for COVID-19 relief for something slightly less important — a giant squid statue. Local officials ...

Leaders of a coastal town in Japan are drawing the ire of some residents after spending $230,000 in COVID-19 relief money on a statue of a flying squid. Squid is king in Noto, a fishing town of about ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -A Japanese coastal town in the western part of the country has drawn ire on social media for using some of the coronavirus relief funds it was given by the government to build a ...

Are you planning on visiting Japan? You might be alarmed by a newly constructed giant squid statue in the small coastal town of Noto. Designed to help boost tourism, the statue cost around 25 million ...

City officials in Noto, a fishing town in Japan, have caught criticism after using coronavirus relief funds not to buy PPE or support small businesses, but to construct a statue of a giant squid. All ...

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The squid is called “Squid Station.” It’s about 13 feet high, 29 feet long, and it cost over $200,000. When Noto, a town on Japan’s central west coast, received a small financial windfall of ...

A coastal town in Japan has provoked debate after spending nearly $230,000 in federal COVID-19 relief money on a 43-foot statue of a flying squid. Noto, a fishing town where the squid is a delicacy, ...

That’s one way to spend your money. After receiving a whopping 800 million yen designed for coronavirus relief, the coastal Japanese town of Noto decided to spend 25 million yen ($228,000) on building ...