{"id":229,"date":"2017-05-30T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/?p=229"},"modified":"2017-05-30T12:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T12:39:12","slug":"fish-are-food-not-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/japan\/fish-are-food-not-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Are Food, Not Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

And we are in Tokyo!!<\/strong> I love it here \ud83d\ude00 Cities are always so exciting for me, and Bowdoin has deprived me of Asian food, so I was even more excited to just eat haha. First on our trip agenda was to meet Ozaki-san, our incredibly \u5143\u6c17 tour guide and long-time friend of Aridome \u5148\u751f. She led us \u00a0on a tour in Tokyo, with the first stop being at Tsukiji.<\/p>\n

Prior to visiting Tsukiji market, we had to read the following article:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wholesale Sushi Culture and Commodity in Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market<\/em> by Theodore C. Bestor<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Tourists love Tsukiji, but Tsukiji does not love tourists.\u00a0<\/strong>Unfortunately we did not get to experience the rush of Tsukiji–although this was probably better for safety reasons–but we did get to see what remained. It was interesting that the Tsukiji workers\u00a0don’t like it when people take photos because it causes traffic jams. Something that stuck out to me while doing the reading and also while walking through the fishy aisles was the prominent idealized perception of what is fresh food. In Japan, there is\u00a0so much attention to presentation and food being perfect and uniform. This isn’t to say that Americans or people of other cultures don’t value looks, but in my experience, American produce in the same display do not\u00a0usually look the same (i.e. they are of varying quality). In contrast, all the food,\u00a0down to the vegetables, in Tsukiji looked photo-ready. Again, the idea of purity appears!!!\u00a0Nature has to be controlled, and it only has value\u00a0when unblemished.<\/p>\n

    Ozaki-san also took us to places like the Tokyo Metropolitan building, a couple \u795e\u793e, \u3067\u3093\u3064. I wish I was fluent in Japanese so I could understand more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    And we are in Tokyo!! I love it here \ud83d\ude00 Cities are always so exciting for me, and Bowdoin has deprived me of Asian food, so I was even more excited to just eat haha. First on our trip agenda was to meet Ozaki-san, our incredibly \u5143\u6c17 tour guide and long-time friend of Aridome \u5148\u751f. … Continue reading “Fish Are Food, Not Friends”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-trip-day-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}