An innovative distribution method has made it possible to bring fish to consumers in Tokyo on the day they were caught, not via the controversy-mired Tsukiji or Toyosu markets, but through Haneda airport.
At 10:20 a.m. one day in late May, a container of fresh fish arrived at the Fresh Fish Center in the airport's East Cargo Terminal aboard a plane that had left Fukuoka nearly two hours earlier.
"These are cherry salmon caught just this morning," Shuichi Miyamoto, who is in charge of the center, said of the container's contents.