Japan's soy sauce exports in 2023 top ¥10 bil amid 'washoku' boom

Beside soy sauce Japan also export rice, it doesn't matter how current price in Japan, people from abroad love it with right price.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1285110/japan-export-volume-rice/

Just a personal preference, but I prefer Yamasa over Kikkoman when I choose any of these major soy sauces. Was surprised at seeing how much it costs in the US when I went there, super glad I live in Japan.

It’s great that Japan took so many elements of Chinese culture and profited off them: ramen, chopsticks, fans, soy sauce, etc.

The USA has enough Asian immigrants that Japanese brands brew the low-end stuff on this side of the Pacific. If you want to splurge on some craft level soy sauce it will be imported from Japan.

The rise was largely influenced by the increasing number of Japanese restaurants around the world due to the popularity of Japanese food, according to the Japan Soy Sauce Association.

Many owned and operated by an Asian diaspora with little connection to Japan.

The best 'soy sauce' I ever had was a Thai-Japanese fusion with a touch or traditional Thai peanut sauces that was good on almost anything.

By Global you mean minus Africa? Washoku in Africa is close to non existent. Africa total population 1.5 billion.

Thank you

I don't know if they export it, but the "fresh" soy sauce that comes in a plastic bottle with a bladder inside is way better than the regular one in large bottles. Sashimi is not cheap any more, so it's important to give it the best.

The cheap one is very chemical but high end ponzu made with real citrus is also really good.

We use the best tamari soy sauce.

Like it but can't handle the salt, so I wish to have a less salty version.

Soy Sauce is not only a valued ingredient of Washoku.

It is fast becoming as ubiquitous as Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Olive oil, Chilli sauce or any of the many condiments that cooks use world wide.

Restriction to traditional dishes only, has long passed.

I assume it's somewhat similar with Shoyu and it's variants.

"Tamari has a richer flavor and tends to taste less salty than soy. Tamari's longer fermentation process enables the soy and salt to become well incorporated, resulting in a smoother taste and deeper umami flavor. Soy sauce tends to have a sharper flavor and more pronounced bite."

"San-J Organic Tamari Lite has about 157mg of sodium compared to the 2,325mg per teaspoon of salt. Made with 100% whole soybeans and no wheat."

It is fast becoming as ubiquitous as Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Olive oil, Chilli sauce or any of the many condiments that cooks use world wide.

Yeah, but I prefer Maggi sauce, like in Thailand. I even put it on toast with butter.

I like soy, but Lea & Perrins go with more food for me, even with rice.

That brings instead streams of tears to my eyes. Look, they had been world's no.1 technology leader and exporter not so long ago. And now the sales of a few soy sauce bottles are wildly celebrated.

Woody Lee, there is, my wife always uses it　”Genen shoyu" (減塩醤油)：

https://www.kikkoman.co.jp/kikkoman/soysauce/taste/lesssalt/

Kikkoman already has the largest soy sauce factory in the world, in Wisconsin. It has been producing soy sauce there since 1973, and is one of 2, soon to be 3 soy sauce factories in the US.

Kikkoman doesnt need to ship soy sauce from Japan to the US.

Japanese shoyu will always be the best in the world.

Talking about what’s your favorite soy sauce kind of misses the point of the article

tamari v washoko, I have seen the latter soy here, but none of the ohter stuff. just for a giggle, NGT china chops, called 'bamboos' in local lingo are long and now all made from B...? since plastics were banned, jpn 'ooops forgot it. short and made of rosewood??

Kikkoman doesnt need to ship soy sauce from Japan to the US.

Nor to Europe either, I think. The Kikkoman soy sauce we have here was brewed in the Netherlands.

It’s great that Japan took so many elements of Chinese culture and profited off them: ramen, chopsticks, fans, soy sauce, etc.

Of course, any consumer would prefer Grade A, high quality product over lower quality & uninspiring imitation.