http://whatjapanthinks.com/2006/07/06/buddhist-priests-favourite-grilled-beef/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2006/07/06/buddhist-priests-favourite-grilled-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-143825 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:32:23 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=317#comment-143825 [...] The vegetarian numbers can be derived from first noticing that 0.7% don’t eat fish according to Q2, then 2.7% of these 0.7% say they don’t eat fish because they are vegetarians, meaning that a whole 8 people from the original 9,524, or 0.08% of the sample, which makes a mere 10,000 vegetarians in the whole of Japan! Of course, monks would inflate the figures, although note that the average local priest is not averse to even grilled beef! [...]

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