A wholesaler checks the quality of frozen tuna displayed at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo, Japan, Jan 5, 2019. TOKYO: Japan's tuna market, the world's largest, is taking an outsized hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, pressuring restaurants and wholesalers at Tokyo's sprawling Toyosu fish market to adapt to survive.
Shimahara, who opened his restaurant a year ago, started selling boxes of frozen tuna online in July to offset the hit to his businesses from the drop in customers. While there was a modest rebound in demand from restaurants for his fish after the state of emergency was lifted, he said big events and business from upscale dining bars, such as those in Tokyo's Ginza area, had been slow to resume.
Amano, who sells mostly high-quality fresh and frozen tuna, said he had seen 30 per cent to 40 per cent less business than usual over the past month due to low demand from major hotels and restaurants at Tokyo's Haneda airport. But the pandemic has hit the industry hard and Japan's tuna imports fell 18 per cent in the first six months of 2020 from a year earlier, finance ministry data showed. With people still wary of going out, the outlook is unlikely to change soon.
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