Japan offering more options for vegans

Unlike many developed countries around the world, I can't really see any increase or interest in the Japanese public when it comes to veganism or healthy eating. But there are more and more options for vegans nowadays. Just behind by about 10 or 20 years, but still.

For anyone with a sweet tooth, Glico has just released a vegan pucchin purin.

One step that makes it difficult for japan is fish but creative use of kombu and shiitake for umami is good.

Shiso umeboshi tempura anyone?

Taps style small dish Japanese based international cuisine restaurant advertised strategically will attract any vegan.

Great business to start up.

The movement has some way to go, 

Take 2:The movement has A LOOOONG way to go,

The (supposed) lack of interest in healthy eating might be because the starting point isn't, for example, a 1960s British-style diet.

I was rather thinking about the fact that fatty meat is popular, that vegetables in the usual teishoku consist of only shredded cabbage, that Japanese white rice being the worst type of rice especially for diabetics, and that sugar and MSG is found everything.

Before the Meiji era, people never really ate much meat, although it may be because they were forbidden to do so. The only non-vegetarian stuff was seafood. When I told a Japanese woman, she said no, no, no, never. I just shut up. You never argue with or correct a Japanese about Japanese culture. Just say 'so desu ka'.

@Pukey2

Unlike many developed countries around the world, I can't really see any increase or interest in the Japanese public when it comes to veganism or healthy eating. But there are more and more options for vegans nowadays. Just behind by about 10 or 20 years, but still.

I reckon one reason for the lack of interest is is the lack of awareness for where and how the meat, the dairy & the eggs comes from.. unpleasant things ne, hide it under the rug. E.g. kids&teens have no idea.

wipeout:

So people like to say. There is a tendency, particularly among vegetarians and vegans, to romanticize the diets of earlier generations

You can check the internet. I didn't write the stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_vegetarianism#Japan

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japan-meat-ban

And I end with this statement from the internet:

Japan’s vegan movement is still young, but is brimming with potential, notes the publication. It says, “Japan’s vegan and animal advocacy communities appear to be where those in the US were 20 years ago — full of grassroots energy and excitement.”