Sushi History Japan

Can anyone link me to some websites on the importance of sushi to japan?
ie: is it an important export? is there a lot of history on it? my google bar is acting funky…
The importance of sushi to Japan is probably about like the importance of fried chicken to Blacks. They think it tastes good.
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HIRAGANA KATAKANA, Japanese Syllabaries Chart $0.99 hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries Chart and How to write those on it…. |
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Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (California Studies in Food and Culture) $17.00 Located only blocks from Tokyo’s glittering Ginza, Tsukiji–the world’s largest marketplace for seafood–is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as tens of thousands … |
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The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket $3.99 Everything you never knew about sushi—its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose it—is revealed in this entertaining documentary account by the author of the highly acclaimed The Secret Life of Lobsters. When a twenty-year-old woman arrives at America’s first sushi-chef training academy in Los Angeles, she is unprepared for th… |