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AP Television Tokyo, Japan - June 6, 2011 1. Close of a plate of meat sushi 2. Mid of customer eating 3. Pan of interior where the restaurant is located (there are many restaurants next to each other) 4. Mid of chef Kensuke Onishi preparing a dish with customers in the foreground 5. Close of chef slicing some liver 6. Set up of chef Kensuke Onishi, putting the final touches on a dish 7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kensuke Onishi, Chef of Nikuzushi: "Our specialty is raw horse meat-based sushi but we also have fresh beef that we serve slightly cooked, or slightly boiled pork and chicken" 8. Mid of signs advertising various dishes, hanging from the tent at the edge of the restaurant. 9. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kensuke Onishi, Chef of Nikuzushi: "Women customers are more (than men) in percentage. Maybe that is because in Japan the phenomenon of the so-called herbivorous women has become trendy and some women are conscious of that and come here just to eat raw meat." 10. Waitress bringing a plate of raw meat to a table of waiting customers 11. Close of woman eating 12. Wide of table with three women eating 13. SOUNDBITE - Japanese Language - Maki Kada, customer "(For Japanese people) it is rare to eat raw meat but served as a sushi it is very easy to eat, even for women." 14. Kensuke adding spices to a dish of meat sushi 15. Close of dish being prepared 16. Pan from menu signs to table with customers 17. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Miho Katani, customer: "I'm really not what can be considered a 'carnivorous woman' but I really like meat." 18. Mid of Kensuke walking around his restaurant 19. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kensuke Onishi, Chef of Nikuzushi: "Compared to raw fish, raw meat rots very soon and could easily make customers sick in the stomach. For this reason we have to be more careful about hygiene issues and pay attention to whether the meat changes colour" 20. Mid of Kensuke preparing another meat dish 21. Mid of customer eating 22. Mid of waitress bringing a plate of raw meat to a table of waiting customers 23. Close of meat being dipped in a dish with soy sauce 24. Wide of table with customers eating 25. Mid of two customers eating raw meat 26. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kentaro Fukuda, customer: "Recently the number of carnivorous women has been increasing, hasn't it? But I think it's a good thing and, as a man, I feel I have to keep up and will keep eating meat." 27. Mid of dish being prepared 28. Mid of Kensuke using two portable gas cans to slightly cook thin slices of meat on a plate 29. Close of Kensuke using gas cans 30. Kensuke serving two customers 31. Mid of customers eating 32. Wide of restaurant 33. Pan from street to exterior of Nikuzushi restaurant LEAD IN: A restaurant in Tokyo is serving raw meat sushi. Cuts of uncooked horse along with rare beef, chicken and pork, have replaced fish - the classic main ingredient of sushi. STORYLINE: The restaurant named ''Nikuzushi'' (meat sushi) has revolutionised what is one of the most famous Japanese dishes in the world, replacing raw fish with raw meat. According to the 23 year old restaurant manager and chef, Kensuke Onishi,, the idea of a meat sushi bar came when the diner's operator, Spice Works, which runs other restaurants as well, decided to focus on just one of its most popular dishes. "Our specialty is raw horse meat-based sushi but we also have fresh beef that we serve slightly cooked, or slightly boiled pork and chicken," explains Onishi. Under Japanese law only horse meat can be served completely raw. The restaurant opened last May in the trendy Ebisu district in central Tokyo and since then it has been proving popular with customers, especially career women. As the buzzword goes, aggressive women supposedly have a liking for raw meat. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/87b10bc2b5df097ac9a5a9f0c6d18f21 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork