After watching a television series in junior high school about a teenage girl from Tokyo who relocates to the Sanriku Coast in Japan's Tohoku region to become a female ama diver, Miku Higuchi was hooked.The 19-year-old Higuchi, who recently became the first female diver in five years to make her debut at Mikimoto Pearl Island, is now helping to attract tourists to the region by taking part in demonstrations to collect sea urchins, pearl oysters and other shellfish in Toba Bay, Mie Prefecture."I would like to pass on this traditional method of fishing to many people," said Higuchi about the …READ FULL ARTICLE
