Nobuo Yonekawa's Page

Born in Tokyo in 1966, Yonekawa encountered kaiten sushi at Expo ’70 in Osaka and has been captivated ever since. After graduating from Keio University, he became a television writer while continuing his lifelong fieldwork at kaiten sushi restaurants in Japan and abroad. To date, he has visited more than 5,000 restaurants.
In 1999, he made his first television appearance as a conveyor-belt sushi critic on Fuji Television’s Akinai-chu. In 2007, he won TV Tokyo’s TV Champion 2 “Kaiten Sushi Expert Championship.” In 2009, he published Shutoken Gensen: Kaiten-zushi Geki-Uma Bible 2010 (Futabasha). In 2011, he published Kaiten-zushi no Keieigaku (The Business of Conveyor-Belt Sushi) (Toyo Keizai Inc.) and served as a founding member of the Japan Kaiten Sushi Association. In 2013, he published Gotochi Chokuso! Zeppin Kaiten-zushi (Kadokawa Magazines). From 2016 to 2019, he organized the Kaiten Sushi Fes at Furusato Matsuri Tokyo.