The Desk
Sushi Journal is made in Tokyo, and it publishes under one name: the Sushi Journal editorial desk. A byline is meant to tell you who stands behind a claim, and on a desk this size the honest answer is all of us — the writer, the second reader, and whoever pulled the source. What each guide does carry is the thing a name cannot give you: the agency, market notice, or reference work it rests on, named in the text and listed in the sources index.
Work is assigned only within the four beats above — craft, Tokyo, Kansai, or public-data verification. Nobody on the desk files outside the beat they actually know.
A guide runs only once every claim in it has been traced to a Japanese-language primary source — a ministry release, a market's own record, or a specialist book. We do not publish stories built on secondhand summaries, press releases, or English travel writing.
Before publication, every factual claim is checked by a second person on the desk against primary sources — including the public-data index — regardless of how senior the writer is.
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