Mar 18 (soranews24.com) - When it comes to trading cards, you might be most familiar with Pokémon cards or Yu-Gi-Oh cards, or perhaps old-school baseball cards. But Japan really has a trading card for everything, so would you be surprised to know they even have fishermen trading cards?
Local fishermen from the Aomori region of Japan, at the northern tip of Japan’s main island, banded together to produce the cards in order to help boost interest in the prefecture’s fishing industry and seafood products. The cards feature the fishermen themselves wearing only the rubber overalls known as waders, with their names superimposed in Roman lettering and star rankings for rarity printed underneath, just like baseball cards. There’s also a little map that shows the part of the prefecture where they work on the bottom right corner.
Doing the tough work that they do, it isn’t surprising that many of the fishermen are young men with well-chiseled bodies. The image of them shirtless and often posing with large fish, their substantial muscles bulging under the weight of holding them, is enough to make anyone swoon. “It’s a great idea,†said a 64-year-old woman from Aomori City. “People who do manual labor have such muscular bodies.â€
