The US has long cited Japan's rice ban as a major impediment to success of the Uruguay Round. Images Menu Recent Visitors to Sushi Boy A diner from Torrance, CA tried it. Talks on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), aimed at expanding world trade, are expected to pick up speed next month, which would revive pressure on Japan to open its rice market. The incident comes at a vulnerable time for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which relies heavily on rural farmers for votes in return for protecting them from cheap foreign rice. That fits the agency rule that the non-rice portion exceed 20 percent.' A Food Agency official says the imported sushi itself may not meet all guidelines on the proportion of processed rice to fish.īut, says a Sushi Boy official, Masahiro Namba, 'Our product would be strictly made up of 23 grams of rice while the fish on top, such as tuna, would be 10 grams. While the foreign rice in the imported sushi would be cooked and molded to fit under slices of raw fish, it might look too similar to regularly consumed rice for officials, and thus not be allowed. Japanese Food Agency officials have tried to block the import pending their ruling on whether these kinds of specialty rice products would fit into a legal loophole that allows such processed items as rice flour and Rice Krispies to enter the country. Sapporo 13.65 2 pcs each tuna, shrimp, salmon, yellowtail, eel. Salmon Lover 13.25 5 pcs salmon, salmon avocado roll.

Tuna Lover 13.25 5 pcs tuna, spicy tuna roll. Such rice costs about six times less than Japanese rice. tuna, shrimp, salmon eel, hokki-gai (surf clam), cooked scallop, octopus, seasonal fish, masago (smelt egg), tekkamaki, kappa maki. The merchant, Fujio Matsumoto, who owns an Osaka-based chain of 44 restaurants called Sushi Boy, has revived a key US-Japan dispute with a plan to import sushi and rice balls containing 100 percent Californian rice starting in November. UNITED States officials are quietly gloating over an attempt by a Japanese merchant to break down his government's Berlin Wall-like ban against the import of foreign rice.

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