Grilled eel leaves one dead, 140 sick in Japan

TOKYO — Grilled eel, a popular summer delicacy in Japan, is behind a department store food poisoning incident that has left more than 140 people sick and one dead, the store's president said. Shinji Kaneko of Keikyu Department Store in Yokohama - about an hour from Tokyo - apologized after the customers, who last week bought lunch boxes containing eel, suffered vomiting and diarrhea. One of the customers - reportedly a woman in her 90s - died, Shinji Kaneko told reporters on Monday, bowing deeply...