ABSTRACT
The social processes relevant to Solomon Taiyo include political and economic change in Japan and Pacific Island countries, involving gender relations, ethnic relations, and social strata relations, and the history, economics, and politics of the international tuna processing industry. Solomon Taiyo as a social phenomenon was generated in ‘travels’ (Clifford 1997: 21-27) between the central business district in Tokyo, remote islands in Okinawa, the villages and reefs of Solomon Islands, and Sainsbury’s supermarkets in the United Kingdom (UK), tracing over earlier paths left by European and Japanese colonialism. As a case study, Solomon Taiyo therefore provides a window through which to examine the intricately complex nature of contemporary economic phenomena.
