The Sushi industry has helped shape Japan into the country it is today. Japan has the biggest fish market in the world, which is the Tsukiji market. Also, fish is one of the Japanese central sources of protein so it is very important to the Japanese’s health.
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Sushi is important in Japanese culture and and history; it has been along for about 2 thousand years. Sushi has helped transform Japan into a world power by having such an outstanding sushi economy. Sushi is among the planet’s most coveted luxury foods and one of the world’s most popular foods. Buyers, sellers, brokers, dealers, auctioneers, distributors, industrialists, chefs, and diners all meet evolving around sushi. This commodity has a large impact around globalization and modernization. In the 1950s tuna was very popular in Japan; by the 1960s, tuna was the one fish everyone wanted in Japan. The market couldn't keep up with the growing demand cause the fish was either from local boats or from long distant travelers who brought voluminous amounts in frozen form. Given the rising prices and tuna’s exceptional size, a man named Okazaki was coming up with the perfect fish for his new cargo plan. Okazaki started making connections with fisherman in canada because there were lots of bluefin tuna there. He just needed to figure out how to keep the tuna cold and fresh for the transportations because it's a very long distance. For the first experiment of exporting tuna from Canada to Japan, the fish had been out of the water for 2 weeks until it got to tokyo. The problem with that was the fish was in a a condition known as “meat burn”: the prolonged exposure to oxygen en route gradually blanched the tuna’s red color. He just needed to figure out how to keep the tuna cold and fresh for the transportations because it's a very long distance. They couldn't figure out any other solutions to keep the tuna fresh during long transportation so they decided to design and build a refrigerated container on a plane that would go in the cargo department. Transporting sushi is a way of using modern infrastructure to fly a delicate dish around the world so that everyone can eat it.
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As more advanced ships and freezers were developed, the bluefin tuna catch tripled to 30 thousand fish annually from 1961 to 1965. New technology made tuna’s voyage to Tokyo easier (Tokyo was the hub for sushi.) New planes such as the 747 were invented, and in 1983 JAL introduced non-stop flights from New York City to Narita (Tokyo airport). Tuna needed to be shipped across the globe for the rest of the world to enjoy it. New forms of shipping the fish such as stuffing ice in an insulated box where the fish was, meant that the fish could be shipped long distances without much damage on the fish. Inventions like this helped the global food industry to ship cargo long distances without damage on the foods. Sushi has helped modernize the global food shipping industry. In addition, after Japan Airlines initiated the transoceanic fresh-tuna trade and it proved successful, many trading companies and brokers rushed to exploit the new connection. Brokers are very important connectors in the seafood economy, helping traveling and market analyst. They traded tips about weather partners, sizes of fish, prices and market movements. The sushi trend has been an economic boom throughout the world and has opened up so many different jobs.
