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For most Americans, sushi isa symbol for Japanese food. /There are nearly
4,000 sushi restaurants across the United States today,/and its market is over $2
billion,/ (*1り In fact, many Americans then thought the idea of consuming
raw fish shocking. It took a boom in immigration from Japan to turn sushi into
an everyday “American" food. ( (2)/But by the 1960s, this had had started to
change、("3 り And in 1966, a Japanese businessman brought a sushi chef and his
wife from Japan, and together they opened a sushi bar inside a Japanese restaurant
in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles. The restaurant was popular, but only
with Japanese immigrants. (レ4 Y As a result, more and more sushi bars popped
up outside of the little Tokyo, and Hollywood began to embrace sushi throughout
the 1970s.
【出典】A Brief History of Sushi in the United States by Sarah Lohman, Mental Floss,
Inc., March 3,2017, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/92861/brief-
history-sushi- united-states
(A) A food journalist and restaurant critic writing for The New York Times dining section
during that decade was attracted by Japanese restaurants in the city, and declared
Japanese fooda trend in New York.
(B) In the 1950s many Americans were somewhat resistant to Japanese food and culture,
“the
'because they had lived through World War II and still perceived Japan as
enemy."
(C)Bupfifty years ago, most Americans had never heard of sushi; if they ate Japanese food
at all, it was more likely to be sukiyaki or tempura.
(D) However, as more sushi bars opened in Little Tokyo, young Japanese chefs( who were
tired of the conservative culture of sushi making in Japan, heard about this trend and
came to America to look for new opportunities.