Comments on: On Being Vegetarian in Japan

By: An Out of Body and Into Cake Experience | Xin's Weald

An Out of Body and Into Cake Experience | Xin's Weald — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:32:23 +0000

[…] terms of food, I’ve been a pretty poor vegan since I got here. As this website suggests, the Japanese add meat to everything, let along animal products. To be perfectly frank, […]

By: Malia

Malia — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:43:41 +0000

The climate for organics and unprocessed, besides those vegetables grown on the anemic soil, is also pretty hostile. It can cost up to 200 yen for a single organic potato about half the size of a normal U.S. potato. And those organic potatoes are half the size of the usual Japanese potato. I wanted to cry when I returned to Oregon and was reunited with the mom and pop organic greengrocers where I could get a heaping bag of organic crimini for five bucks. I can get 6 mushrooms for 2 dollars in Japan. Who knows where they came from.

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On Hunting Dolphins in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:02:06 +0000

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By: zizi ninoo

zizi ninoo — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:57:36 +0000

I am with you on the conspiracy. I am not a vegan but as a Muslim we cant eat any dish with meat in it. We had few options in some restaurants but they changed them by adding bacon!

By: Zen

Zen — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:39:45 +0000

I have minimal problem eating a vegetarian diet here in Osaka . I am not vegan so perhaps that helps.

By: owwls

owwls — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:49:32 +0000

Sure, if you cook at home or in your dorm, you can do anything! Grocery stores are your best bet.

By: hharukii

hharukii — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:47:38 +0000

I am kinda worried now about the dietary options because I really want to study there and yet based on my research it’s pretty hard to find vegetarian food there. Even in my country, the Japanese restaurants are perhaps the least friendly to vegetarians as everything has some kind of meat in it whether it’s fish cake or soup stock… The vegetarian fare there seems expensive though, are there any options that could be affordable for students? :/

By: Torwen

Torwen — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:55:14 +0000

Funny, my experience is a completely different one. I am a vegan and was in Japan on several occasions, sometimes with my two vegetarian sons. I do speak some Japanese so that was probably helpful, but everybody went to great lengths to make sure I get a vegan meal, often they created a special dish. Tokyo and other larger cities have beautiful vegetarian restaurants (http://www.happycow.net/asia/japan/). If you go to a hot spring and tell them in advance, they will prepare the most fantastic vegan kaiseki. There is no need to despair when in Japan. However, it is very helpful to speak basic Japanese, so you can tell them to excludenot so obvious things, like dashi, fish etc

By: sparnell15

sparnell15 — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:09:34 +0000

I agree with a lot of the Vegans here who have a hard time finding Japanese food. I had never, never, even been so frustrated in my life just to find a simple stomach filling meal in the two weeks I was in Tokyo. Eventually I went walk about and pretty much brought croissant, yoghurt and vegetable onigiri from the konbinis every day. With the occasional aisu-latte from starbucks. It is hard as fuck to find decent fresh vegetarian food in Japan compared to say, London or Sydney. And I can read the menus and speak Japanese. If you go I highly recommend you spend plenty of time researching where every one of the Vegetarian food outlets are in Tokyo or where you are going to.

Never again. And glad to be back in Sydney, where I can order fresh food, anywhere!

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You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking | smoke going upward, — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:31:03 +0000

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