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Description: KESEN-NUMA CITY, JAPAN - It's 5am on the the north eastern tip of Japan's main island of Honshu, and 75 tons of dead shark is being meticulously arranged into a neat grid of tidy piles, of twenty sharks per pile.nnIf you thought shark finning was exclusively a Chinese problem, think again. Welcome to Kesen-numa City, Japan's shark fin capital.nnHere, six days a week, small teams of Japanese workers go about the hushed business of industrial shark-finning.nnBy 6.30am, with piles arranged, the sha