Auction Takes Place To Decide The Most Expensive Beef In Kobe

A cow rests in a pen during the 93rd Hyogo Prefecture Livestock Industry Promoting Auction on October 23, 2011 at Nishiwaki in Kobe, Japan. Kobe beef is one of most expensive beef around the world and this year highest priced bull sold at auction 5,001,000 Japanese yen (65,578.28 U.S. Dollars). The highest priced bull's  weight 790 kilogram.  

Livestock Industry Promoting auction organizing official said auction price of Kobe and Tajima beef this year become less demand due to March 11 Fukushima nuclear accident and economy crises. 

About 800 kilogram wait 106 cows and bulls bring to competition and auction which cows bring around the Kobe. 65 cows sold for Kobe meat and others sold for cattle farm. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

Fukushima no-entry zone people spend the day with their pet dogs first time after the evacuated

Animal Shelter Taking Care Of Pets From Tsunami Area

ALONE AGAIN 

A staff member holds the pet dog of a family after they left during the annual festival at Happy House on October 8, 2011 in Osaka, Japan. The NPO Japan Animal Trust (JAT) are taking care about 200 of the cats and dogs for their owners who are unable to keep their pets due to their current housing conditions and the fact that they are living outside the no entry zone of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster area. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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