This picture was taken more than ten years ago with David Okamoto, Mr. Yutaka Okamoto's third son born and raised in the U.S., posing as Ita-san in a Sushi shop in Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan. Edomae Sushi demands the freshest seafoods available, and prices go up strictly according to the level of freshness if other conditions are the same. But, these traditional gourmet restaurants are having new problems because most of the raw materials used are imported from all over the world nowadays, and rumors are that some of the imports are contaminated through the food chain.
If we are to maintain the clean and wholesome standard (not necessarily because fish are wild stock either) of this delicate traditional diet, all of us must rethink about the ocean environment of the world, and especially that of the Asia-Pacific region. Now, it is not just the produce grown near the garbage incinerator plants that we should be worrying about.

The Tokyo Life Science Laboratory would like to invite our friends to join us in a private forum soon to be organized. We will announce the first meeting sometime in February or March, 1999. Those who are interested in knowing more about our environment, Dr. Ichimura's information technology, or the pollution problems adversely affecting the produce and fish we depend on for daily diet are requested to contact the Laboratory, or drop an e-mail at the address below expressing interest.

Drop your to-> yokamoto@sbpark.com