Founder’s Story

The great sushi bars are always small. They have only 8 seats at the maximum. That realization shaped my future. From th […]

Finally, I did my first sushi party.The guests were delighted.“Kenji, this is amazing.”“I didn’t know you could do this! […]

About six months after I started attending Sushi Academy, Christmas season arrived. One day, I got a message from an old […]

As the year went on, my vision started to sharpen. Shooting food during the pandemic had been fun—and lifesaving. But I […]

I attended class every Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., for a full year.The classroom was like a tiny United Nations of […]

From day one, every technique was broken down into reason and method. How to hold the knife. Where to place your thumb. […]

Before I enrolled, I believed—like almost all of Japanese —that becoming a sushi chef required endless, almost mysteriou […]

Around that time, I heard a successful entrepreneur say:“If you want to learn sushi, go to a school. One year—and you’ll […]

Shooting food wasn’t just about the perfect angle anymore. The more I photographed, the more I realized:
If I truly want […]

And as I continued guiding travelers from around the world,I learned something that no textbook or camera manual could t […]