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Discussion about food and culture, usually associated with food in term of pleasure, which can cover up or never even imagine that there is existence of power behind it. Through globalization, one of which has the consequences of opening up the chance for expansion of our palates and culinary awareness by embracing any kind of foreign or ethnic food. The presence of foreign food is not only present through pure market mechanisms, it also occur through the political process. By doing literary approach, this research was conducting to find the global cultural flow of Japanese food in Indonesia. Taking the concept from Arjun Appadurai about scapes, we can see how people, ideology, media, money and technology are a global dynamic that interact and shape one another the world of food and eating culture. The results of the study reveal that the existence of Japanese food in Indonesia is a picture of the dynamics of global interactions that occur between the desire to have power and desire for wealth.