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Urban anthropology has been simultaneouslychallenged and transformed as forces of globalization —variously defined in economic, political,social, and cultural terms— havebeen theorized as de-territorializing manysocial processes and trends formerly regardedas characteristic of urban places. Against aseemingly dis-placed cityscape of global flows of capital, commerce, commodity, and culture,this paper examines the reconfiguration ofspatially and temporally dispersed relationshipsamong labor, commodities, and cultural influence within an international seafood trade that centers on Tokyo's Tsukiji seafood market,and the local specificity of both marketand place within a globalized urban setting. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X51 ; La antropología urbana ha sido desafiada ytransformada de manera simultánea debidoal efecto desterritorializador que, según algunasteorías, las fuerzas de la globalización—definida de diversas formas en términoseconómicos, políticos, sociales y culturales— han ocasionado en muchas tendenciasy procesos sociales antes considerados característicos de las zonas urbanas. Ante unaparentemente desplazado1paisaje urbanode flujos globales de capital, comercio,mercancía y cultura, este artículo estudia lareconfiguración de las relaciones, espacial ytemporalmente dispersas, entre el trabajo,las mercancías y la influencia cultural en elcomercio internacional de mariscos, cuyocentro está ubicado en el mercado de productos marinos de Tsukiji, en Tokio. Tambiénanaliza la particularidad local tanto del mercado como del lugar mismo en un entornourbano globalizado. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X51

Two types of establishments engaged in mass distribution of food in Japan, primarily in fast-paced urban areas, are examined. The Kaiten-zushi can be translated as "conveyer belt sushi" restaurants. The Konbini are franchised convenience stores that sell packaged, processed foodstuffs to be taken home or elsewhere to eat. Both represent the shift to fast food that gained prominence during the economic boom, using new technology for production & distribution of popular foods but has continued during the prolonged recession. The popularity of these outlets for industrialized fast food is explored from the perspective of distribution, based on research at Tokyo's Tsukiji wholesale fish market, the world's largest & a hub in both global & national distribution systems. Critics of these establishments contend that they purvey a highly impersonal popular culture of consumption that leads to social alienation. The new Japanese food system is dependent on the globalization of food supply, technological innovations, & business systems, the "moral panic" about changes in food culture may indicate the ambivalence in Japan about globalization. References. J. Stanton

Urban anthropology has been simultaneously challenged and transformed as forces of globalization—variously defined in economic, political, social, and cultural terms—have been theorized as "de‐territorializing" many social processes and trends formerly regarded as characteristic of urban places. Against a seemingly dis‐placed cityscape of global flows of capital, commerce, commodity, and culture, this paper examines the reconfiguration of spatially and temporally dispersed relationships among labor, commodities, and cultural influence within an international seafood trade that centers on Tokyo's Tsukiji seafood market, and the local specificity of both market and place within a globalized urban setting.[Tokyo, markets, food culture, globalization]

Describes growing international popularity of sushi, which is processed from raw tuna and has traditionally been Japan's most popular seafood, how Japanese demand for highly prized bluefin tuna has fueled worldwide expansion of the tuna fish industry and fisheries, economics of the industry, and other issues. Sidebar on Tokyo's wholesale seafood market, Tsukiji, which is the center of the global tuna trade.