Yes, 1,000 japanese yen, or about $180. When the Shanghai Sailing Club passed on offering those oysters for sale for 50 yen, in order to earn revenue in a struggling economy, it made the decision to pull the plug. “It’s really sad,” says a 22-year-old worker at the hotel who declined to give his name. He expects things to get better. “Japan is on its way out. I am happy here!”
The problem is that losing any one of them can have an impact: as one journalist put it this month: “Every shipment of oysters going into Japan is considered a catastrophe for Japanese shippers.”