Japan is an island country encircle by the sea.
Culture in this country has made progress because Japan not borders on any continent. Japan has it country that four seasons and a long history. Japanese people love Japanese beautiful nature.
Japanese’s original culture was produced about in the Muromachi period by the Kentoshi was abolished. Japanese food is one of the typical Japanese cultures.
Japanese foods have some good points.
Japanese food’s good point is a healthful diet, for example, sushi, tempura, and so on.
Japanese food is a low calorie diet and has a distinctive flavor. Amazon, the most popular Internet shop, said shirataki is very popular now.
Now, the world is wealth of foods. In advanced nations, the persons of overweight have increased in number as gastronomic culture becomes rich. According to research by OECD, Health at a Glance 2009, Americans were 34.3% to the Japanese people of the result of the overweight ratio of advanced nations having been 3.4%.It is thought that this has high influence of an eating-habits style by a country. Between Japanese and American of overweight rate about 10 times. Now, it is not only delicious, but also the demand of the food of low calorie content is increasing. So it is popular among overseas people.
Another good point is Japanese foods is safety because Japanese is careful about sanitation. In other countries are not as safety as Japan. In 2008, a total of ten persons who ate the frozen meat and vegetable dumplings which TENYOU FOOD of China manufactured appealed against toxic symptoms, such as diarrhea and vomiting. The government department which Chinese food regulation is complicated, is irresponsible as for the supervising system, supervises, and enforces a policy overlapped, and often imposes an ambiguous duty.
Internationalization of food, such as a fast food restaurant, is progressing in Japan today. But, the gastronomic culture of Japan which can pride itself in the world should be kept. Japanese foods are excellent!!
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