Of the world’s 400 species of shark, 124 species, almost a third, have been identified in Japanese waters. A long narrow country stretching over a considerable range of latitudes, Japan is home to a wide variety of species, mainly coastal sharks of the temperate zone but also oceanic and bottom-living sharks.
That is a lot. I thought there is only one specie?
Sounds surprising but indeed there are 124 shark species in the sea of Japan.