Akira Okazaki

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

by Sasha Issenberg  · 1 Jan 2007  · 534pp  · 15,752 words

cargo”—that would find willing buyers in booming Japan. The Teletype arrived in late summer from JAL’s headquarters in Tokyo. It was written by Akira Okazaki, whom MacAlpine had never met but knew was the man responsible for uncovering new markets for cargo worldwide. The message had a simple request: What

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with a small bulldozer and buried them,” MacAlpine reported back. It was long after MacAlpine’s reponse arrived in Tokyo that Akira Okazaki decided to make his way to Canada. Akira Okazaki was born in prewar Japan and spent his pre teen years in Shanghai with a father sent there to represent the Bank

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young Akira across Shanghai so he could apologize—in the formal Japanese style of kneeling on the ground—to his damp victim. In his twenties, Akira Okazaki went to work for Japan Airlines, a company born amid Japan’s postwar recovery and initially so modest that in its first offices, in Ginza

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perfectly cut maguro. In the weeks after the day of the flying fish in August 1972, 173 tuna were shipped from Canada to Tokyo, but Akira Okazaki still had work to do on Prince Edward Island. He had proven the logistical viability of bringing Atlantic bluefin to Tsukiji, but local fishermen remained

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had set up a relationship with a local technician who would collect and grade fish before having them trucked to Boston —down the same roads Akira Okazaki’s first flying fish traveled in 1972—where Kliss would examine them to determine where they should be sold. Dealing in Canadian fish was just

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,” by Howard W. French, New York Times, April 4, 2002. Chapter One 4 6 “world’s busiest carrier”: Heppenheimer “internal JAL report”: Report written by Akira Okazaki, kept in JAL files. Chapter Two 15 16 16 17 17 17 25 “traders came to work in zori”: Kobayashi. “On a Saturday in December

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restaurants Nobu-style cuisine North Carolina fish, “north of the orient” journey Lindbergh Notar, Richie Nozawa, Kazunori ocean perch Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko Okai, Yoshi Okazaki, Akira Okazaki, Kaheita Okubo, Yoshio omakase Onchi, Tetsuro onigiri (rice balls) Onodera, Morihiro Ono, Tadashi ooba opening ceremonies, Nobu restaurants Osaka Expo (1970) oshibori (little damp towels

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay  · 2 Jan 2009  · 603pp  · 182,781 words

of freshness and yuppie emblem—headlined by the fatty toro carved from the bluefin’s belly—can be traced to a Japanese Airlines executive named Akira Okazaki. Okazaki worked in the airline’s cargo division in the early 1970s, when his job was to fill the empty bellies of JAL’s 747s

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from Hilverda De Boer’s Chicago representative Susan Tock. And plans for the futuristic Aalsmeer appeared in From Green to Gold. Japan Airlines sent me Akira Okazaki’s final report on the events leading up to “the day of the flying fish,” which also appears in Sasha Issenberg’s The Sushi Economy

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

by Nicola Twilley  · 24 Jun 2024  · 428pp  · 125,388 words

a worthless trash fish into one the world’s most expensive foods. The man responsible for the first breakthrough was a young Japan Airlines executive, Akira Okazaki, charged with solving the company’s unique freight problem. At the time, Japan was at the height of its postwar “economic miracle,” with a reputation

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey  · 15 Nov 2011  · 1,205pp  · 308,891 words

about being an American woman or a Dutch merchant or a person who values modern art or an executive developing trust in a business relationship. Akira Okazaki of Japan Airlines played cards for months with fisherman from Prince Edward Island in Canada during the 1970s in order to develop a backhaul business