Rugby World Cup and Beer

Update: As far as I am aware, there was enough beer for the RWC. Every once in a while I come across a news item that reminds me that I am still in Japan.  The latest was a small article in The Japan Times this past Monday about the Japanese organizing committee for the 2019 Rugby World Cup worrying if there will be enough beer for the 400,000 foreign rugby fans coming to Japan for the games.  […]

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Tsukiji to Toyosu

A collection of thoughts and commentary on the end of Tsukiji and the move to Toyosu A Few Days Before the Move Tsukiji has become an internationally recognized brand, a brand associated with the highest quality fish in the world.  That is now gone.  Toyosu will never replace it, even if the fish is more or less the same.  But because of the contaminated ground around and under the new market, Toyosu will also make people question […]

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