TOKYO, April 13 — Women have warm hands, their periods alter their sense of taste and they can't work long hours — just some of the claims from those in Japan who believe women can't be sushi chefs. But a growing number of women in the country determined to shatter those myths are training and...
Mizuho Iwai, an apprentice at Sushi Ginza Onodera restaurant, grinds wasabi at the restaurant in Tokyo, January 16, 2020. — AFP pic
Mizuho Iwai is a trainee at the upscale Onodera restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza, a ritzy neighbourhood home to some of the world's top-ranked sushi restaurants.“I think there are a few chefs but it's rare. But I wanted to challenge things because of that,” the 33-year-old apprentice told AFP.And at Onodera, she's not totally alone, there was one other woman among the 10 apprentices training at the restaurant before it closed temporarily in April over the coronavirus outbreak.
“My colleagues have accepted me,” said Iwai, who decided to become a sushi chef after cooking in small Japanese restaurants. “That's why I think the number of women who want to become a sushi chef is small in the first place,” she said.Onodera's head chef Akifumi Sakagami said the sushi world's reputation for punishing training drove away women but also young people of both genders.Sakagami started as an apprentice more than 30 years ago in the northern city of Sapporo, when female chefs and trainees were essentially nonexistent.
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