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NH Foods Ltd. (日本ハム株式会社, Nippon Hamu Kabushiki-gaisha) (English name before 2014: Nippon Meat Packers, Inc.) is a food processing conglomerate headquartered in Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan.
The history of meat consumption in Japan is relatively short. Meat products, referring to non-maritime animals, were historically not developed as part of Japanese cuisine due to the influence of Buddhist vegetarianism, political idealism, and scarcity. [1] As a result, Japan has the shortest history of eating meat compared to other Asian ...
Meat Hope Inc. (ミートホープ株式会社, Mito Hopu Kabushiki-gaisha) was a meat processing and wholesaling company headquartered in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan. It went bankrupt in 2007 after several scandals of fraudulently labeling foodstuffs, including a ground beef fraud scandal.
Surimi industrial technology developed by Japan in the early 1960s promoted the growth of the surimi industry. In 1963, the government of Hokkaido applied for a patent on the surimi processing technology, and companies such as Nippon Suisan and Maruha-Nichiro implemented at-sea frozen fish processing in the mid-1960s.
The Shojinmeat Project was created in Japan by Yuki Hanyu (Japanese: 羽生 雄毅), [12] [13] but has become an internationally collaborative effort welcoming a variety of talent. [ 2 ] [ 14 ] The shōjin of Shojinmeat's name ( Japanese : 精進 ) [ 15 ] [ 8 ] is a Japanese Buddhist term, meaning "devotion" to the path to Nirvana .
Japan also has a long history of eating offal, and the Manyoshu, an anthology compiled around the 7th to 8th century, mentions eating deer liver as a household dish and stomach as salted fish. There is a popular belief in Japan that people did not eat offal, and that Japan was a Buddhist country and did not eat meat before the Meiji period.
Kobe beef (神戸ビーフ, Kōbe bīfu) is Wagyu beef from the Tajima strain of Japanese Black cattle, raised in Japan's Hyōgo Prefecture around Kobe city, according to rules set out by the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association. [1] The meat is a delicacy, valued for its flavour, tenderness and fatty, well-marbled texture.
In 2018, Japan produced 9.7 million tons of rice (13th largest producer in the world), 3.6 million tons of sugar beet (used to produce sugar and ethanol), 1.2 million tons of sugarcane (used to produce sugar and ethanol), 208 thousand tons of persimmon (4th largest producer in the world), 2.3 million tons of potatoes, 1.3 million tons of cabbage, 1.6 million tons of onion, 773 thousand tons of ...