Japans most famous monsterfish keeper

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Who do you think is Japans most famous friend of our scaly friends of the seas?

It is Tenno Heika or how you say it in the west Emperor Akihito. Our emperor studied ichtyology and published many papers. He is very renomated in his subject and his main interest are gobiid species.
He is so far the only head of a nation worldwide who does still research beside his representative duties.

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You can see some of his publications here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?....Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstract

Tenno Heika breeds very sucessfull Koi in the imperial gardens of the palace

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It is said, that there are many tanks in the palace where Tenno Heika keeps various fish from all around the world. No one has acess into the palace so no one knows exactly what is kept there beside the Koi which we can see in public display.

I like it very much that the Tenno has the same hobby that many of his people share since keeping fish is very popular in Japan.

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Nice!

Absolutely noidea what else the Emperor keeps? I imagine a lot :)
 
Unfortunatelly not. There are almost no informations about what is in the imperial palace. We know that Kogo Michiko (in west you say the Empress) keeps and breeds tropical butterfly and silkworms. She harvests her own silk and feeds the larvae and so on
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I guess that the tenno has mainly marine tanks since that is his main interest. The imperial palace is so huge that he could propably keep anything there from Guppy to Arapaima.

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Thats pretty interesting, would love to know what other tanks they may have in there, i wonder if there would be a way to find out... Maybe time to make some new friends in high places ;)


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Unfortunately thats almost impossible. Our imperial palace is one of the most unknown places worldwide. Nobody knows exactly how evrything is inside and no information comes out. The palace gardens are only opened at 2 times evry year for public. The imperial household does not even report to our prime minister. The only existing footage of large parts of the interior is from a TV show from the last 80th when Showa-Tenno (Emperor Hirohito) allowed journalists to film behind the palace walls.

There are rumors in Japan that Tenno Heika has many cichlids and southamerican freshwater rays and his main interest as hobby is breeding colorful australian freshwater gobiids. But that are just rumors and no pictures exist so far. I must say i would love to see it. ^^
 
MFK should send a Membership invitation to the Emperor.

Who knows?? :)
 
That is awesome! Too bad they are so tight-lipped, it would be super cool to be able to see a few imperial aquariums....
 
Great thread thanks for posting. The Emperor seems like a pretty cool guy, too bad everything is kept a secret.
 
I do not even star to imagine what the imperial fishroom(s) must look like and contain :)
 
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