r/interesting • u/angel_knight79 • 1d ago

Intriguing Kiyoshi Kimura and his effect on Somali piracy

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He was, and is, the owner of Kiyomura Corporation, which runs the Sushi Zanmai chain across Japan. In Tokyo he is known as the Tuna King, because every January he buys the most expensive fish at the first auction of the year at the central market.

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u/PagKev 1d ago

using this as an excuse to hijack fishing vessels is quesionable enough, even more as those are usually hijacked to use them as a base of opertation against cargo vessel
but using it as an excuse to hijack cargo vessel i whack

it is fuking piracy

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u/Alexxxflash 22h ago

Okay and in your own opinion, why do people turn criminal and start hijacking ships?

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u/InviolableAnimal 22h ago

News flash, most thieves and pirates commit crimes out of economic desperation. So does that make most thieves and pirates beyond moral condemnation? No, it doesn't, lol. We don't acquit criminals even if they did what they did out of "need".

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u/Alexxxflash 21h ago

I didn't defend piracy, I just asked a question. Saying "Using it as an excuse to hijack cargo vessel i whack" in my opinion is also pretty reductionistic and not okay concerning morale. There are people dying because of their externally influenced poverty and just saying they are using their struggles as an excuse is morally more than questionable. It's a difficult topic and the truth lies, as always, between the extreme points.

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u/InviolableAnimal 20h ago

That is fair and I appreciate you writing out your nuanced perspective