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Even in today's market, Japan, is the third largest single market in the world for fish and fish products. [18] [19] It is estimated that in 2008 that Japan eat 81 percent of the worlds fresh tuna. [20] These reasons are why Japan has one of the most overfished waters in the world.
The four big pollution diseases of Japan (四大公害病, yondai kōgai-byō) were a group of man-made diseases all caused by environmental pollution due to improper handling of industrial wastes by Japanese corporations. [1] The first occurred in 1912, and the other three occurred in the 1950s and 1960s.
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing (Japanese: 農林水産, nōrinsuisan) form the primary sector of industry of the Japanese economy together with the Japanese mining industry, but together they account for only 1.3% of gross national product. Only 20% of Japan's land is suitable for cultivation, and the agricultural economy is highly subsidized.
The food industry eagerly promoted this campaign by selling foods that warm people up, such as nabemono. However, the electric utility industry had little enthusiasm for the campaign. Since fossil fuel heating is popular in northern Japan, Warm Biz had little effect on electric consumption.
Japan has a long history of importing food from other countries, some of which are now part of Japan's most popular cuisine. Ramen is considered an important part to their culinary history, to the extent where in survey of 2,000 Tokyo residents, instant ramen came up many times as a product they thought was an outstanding Japanese invention. [ 75 ]
Now popular throughout Japan. Motsunabe - a nabemono dish of beef or pork offal. (Fukuoka) Mentaiko spicy fish eggs (Fukuoka) Champon - a ramen-like dish of noodles, seafood and vegetables cooked in the same pot. Castella - a sweet, rectangular sponge cake, introduced to Nagasaki by the Portuguese in the 16th Century. Now popular throughout Japan.
Japanese lawmakers are set to decide at a special parliamentary session on Monday whether Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba should stay as the country's premier after his scandal-tarnished coalition ...
Japan's capital Tokyo is preparing to force industry to make big cuts in greenhouse gases, taking the lead in a country struggling to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligations. Tokyo's outspoken governor, Shintaro Ishihara , decided to go it alone and create Japan's first emissions cap system , reducing greenhouse gas emission by a total of 25% by ...