so takeda has decided to try koreatown in los angeles. at a local supermarket he was reassured to find sea squirts on display. and the restaurant he visited was serving sea squirts. >> yeah, i like it, maybe one or two times. >> reporter: he found there's demand, but people in koreatown have concerns. >> japanese -- it's a kind of fish, i'm scared. >> reporter: takeda had planned to meet a south korean trader in l.a. but he suddenly canceled the meeting. >> transnslator: there was a series of developments such as strained japan/soututh koreaa relations and thehewto's final decision on the import ban last year. i feel those affected our effort to some extent. >> reporter: takeda found a south korean restaurant interested in sampling the sea squirts. >> it doesn't have the bitterness. >> reporter: takeda explained that he can provide a variety of processed sea squirts and that they are larger than south korean products. >> translator: i believe exporting our sea squirts is ababsolutely n necessary. i won't give injust for this trip. >> repo

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company in the race to create a treatment for the coronavirus outbreak is japanese pharma giant, takedaegan development on a plasma derived treatment for the virus. joining us is the president of the global vaccine business unit so explain where you are on coming up u with a treatment relative to some of the other names that meg just mentioned. >> sure, we are fairly far along in term of our capabilities. we're one of the top three producers of plasma related treatments and what we're doing here is leveraging something we do every day, which is to pull antibodies out of plasma and give that to people who would benefit from those antibodies, like for example, people with immuno deficiency syndromes. they're a key component of the immune system. so the approach we're taking here is to go to individuals, patients, who have recovered from a coronavirus infection and collect their blood and isolate the antibodies in that blood then give it to individuals who have severe coronavirus infection. that's the goal and we believe that based on data we've seen with other viral infections and some da