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- THE WEEK, Page 22WORLDEt Cetera
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- SUSHI BARRED?
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- The latest Don Quixote to joust with the Rice Curtain,
- Japan's barrier to offshore grain imports, is Osaka's Fujio
- Matsumoto. His 44 Sushi Boy restaurants serve the popular dish at
- bargain prices. Matsumoto wants to cut charges further by
- importing 100,000 pieces of frozen sushi from California,
- wrapped in cheap American rice. The government must decide
- whether the entree is a creation unto itself, allowing it to
- circumvent the strict trade barrier, or a sly combination of raw
- fish and the very much forbidden U.S. rice. Only then will it be
- clear if Sushi Boy will succeed where Uncle Ben's has failed.
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