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Even if the honor didn’t inspire them to glow with added luster, it was an improvement over the recognition “lightning bugs” customarily get from small boys who trap them in jars.
But Japan has moved beyond ceremonial gesture and taken action, breeding fireflies to be released in Tokyo on summer nights. An official explained that “sometime in everybody’s life he must chase a firefly in one form or another.”
Firefly cultivation, currently a very small industry, apparently grew from the problem confronted a decade ago by one of the Japanese capital’s largest outdoor restaurants. The restaurant found that as Tokyo had become more crowded and industrialized, the fireflies whose intermittent flashes enhanced
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