Toyama Bay is the third biggest bay in Japan and home to one of the largest seafood distribution centres in the nation, rivalling Tokyo and Osaka.

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In 1999, I went to Toyama, Japan, to briefly train with my uncle Yasushi Naoe, who was a kaiseki chef for over 50 years.

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Iwona has lectured all over the world including at the Toyama Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp and the Louisiana Museum, Denmark.

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At Sushi Sasaki, a small counter in Toyama city run by Sasaki-san and his wife, I sampled a variety of fresh nigiri and sashimi, washed down with a few glasses of local sake.

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Sakai Toyama is one of a band of residents who have maintained a beachside vigil for more than eight years, just to make sure construction on the base doesn't start while no one is looking.

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"Half of my in-box is filled with e-mail from guys in different departments saying they've heard about some project we're working on and they want to know more because they have clients who could benefit from those products, " says Toyama.

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"Microsoft and many other companies realize that since it is, after all, people who use technology, it's critical for the company to understand how people adapt to technology, " notes Kentaro Toyama, who leads the Technology for Emerging Markets research group at Microsoft Research India.

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