NEW TOKYO FISH MARKET OFFERS BENEFITS TO THE JAPAN SEAFOOD SECTOR
November 1st, 2006
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
WORK is scheduled to get under way in February on building a gleaming new seafood and fish wholesale market on a man-made island in Tokyo Bay. The Japan capital's municipal authorities claim it will get products to market faster, attract more buyers and increase profit margins for traders.
The state-of-the-art Koto Ward market - which has not yet been named - is due to open its doors by 2012 and will take over the duties of Tsukiji, the world's largest market for fish. After 70 years on the same plot in Chuo Ward, the Tokyo ...
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