Emergency Warning Over Toxic Pufferfish in Japanese City

A pufferfish, known as fugu in Japan, on a chopping board to remove toxic internal organs at a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo June 2012. Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/GettyImages

Loudspeakers are located across the Japanese city of Gamagori, ready to warn the public in an instant of impending earthquakes.

On Tuesday, however, authorities were using the wireless emergency system not to warn of impending natural disasters, but of fish. Five portions of pufferfish, to be precise.