Aussie, Japanese fishmongers to swap tips in wake of Tsukiji transfer project
The former head of Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market visited a market in Sydney on Friday to advise the facility on its soon-to-commence redevelopment. Hiroyuki Morimoto said the cultural differences between fish markets in Japan and Australia mean there are many areas where the two ...
Mottainai Action wants no seafood to go to waste
At Mottainai Project Uoharu's Yurakucho and Nakameguro bars, the daily menu relies on "unwanted" seafood from wholesale fish markets in order to combat food waste and promote food sustainability.
Women boosting their presence at Tokyo's new Toyosu fish market
Mao Nakajima, 31, works for intermediary wholesale company Hicho in Tokyo's new major wholesale fish market, where she examines southern bluefin tuna and other fish and places bids. Intermediary wholesalers fillet tuna weighing more than 70 kilograms and sell pieces to buyers from restaurants who ...
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike came under fire at a committee meeting of the metropolitan assembly on Monday over the metropolitan government's plan to redevelop the former Tsukiji market site. Assembly members from the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party argued that a recently ...
The Toyosu wholesale market in Tokyo's Koto Ward has been struggling to attract visitors to watch tuna auctions even though a designated viewing area was opened about a month ago. The now-defunct Tsukiji market had been flooded with people looking to witness its tuna auctions, ...
Koike presents vision for Tokyo, stressing importance of ties with Osaka ahead of Olympics and Expo
Gov. Yuriko Koike spoke to the press Monday about her plans to repurpose the former site of the Tsukiji fish market and strengthen ties with Osaka prior to the 2020 Olympic Games and 2025 World Expo, setting out her ambitions for ongoing development of ...
Tokyo considers plans for convention center complex at site of former Tsukiji fish market
Tokyo authorities will outline a draft redevelopment plan on Jan. 25 for a complex, including a convention center, on the site of the closed Tsukiji market, a source says.
Observation deck for Tokyo's renowned tuna auctions opens to public at new Toyosu market site
Visitors formed long lines before daybreak on Tuesday to catch a glimpse of Tokyo's renowned tuna auctions — now at the Toyosu wholesale fish market — as an observation deck opened to the public for the first time since the relocation from Tsukiji in ...
With eye on tourism, Tsukiji redevelopment planning set to accelerate in 2019
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will soon accelerate work to draw up a blueprint for redevelopment of the former site of the landmark Tsukiji food market, following its closure in October 2018. Through the redevelopment, the authority aims to increase the capital's appeal as a waterfront ...
The Japan Times newsroom selected the following domestic news stories as the most important of 2018.
With the busy year-end trading period underway at the new Toyosu wholesale food market in Tokyo, intermediary wholesalers are calling for the general public to be allowed entry to directly buy fish. Unlike in the former Tsukiji market, only fish retailers and other professionals have ...
New section of Tokyo Ring Road No. 2 opens to traffic ready for 2020 Games
A section of Ring Road No. 2, a key route for transportation during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games that connects the capital's central and southeastern waterfront areas, was provisionally opened to traffic Sunday. The completion of the 2.8-kilometer-long section between Toyosu in Koto ...
