Comments on: Fish-eating (and vegetarian statistics) in Japan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/ 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 By: On Being Vegetarian in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-249150 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:37:00 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/#comment-249150 [...] to their health, and those two generations are now the majority of Japan’s population. One survey indicates that only .08 percent of Japanese natives are ideological [...]

]]> By: mike http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-144111 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:23:11 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/#comment-144111 I like tuna and salmon fish.

]]> By: Ken Y-N http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-143925 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:10:46 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/#comment-143925 Kristen, the Japanese for vegetarian used here was 菜食主義, saishokushugi, which I think carried a definite “vegetables only”, although I have noticed when I use the katakana vegetarian it usually gets understood as “no identifiable meat chunks”, so even offal is OK!

Also, considering that the survey was about fish, and the people who said they were vegetarian answered that in reply to being asked why they didn’t eat fish, and of course I am a Western vegetarian, and most of my readers are Western, so I think using no dead animal products as a definition is appropriate.

]]> By: Kristen http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-143878 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:57:17 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/#comment-143878 Your reasoning on the vegetarian calculations might not be fully sound. Vegetarianism in Japan is commonly understood to include fish, which confuses and upsets many Western vegetarians. So your 10,000 vegetarians may only count those who subscribe to the Western world’s vegetarian scheme.

It seems odd, but not too surprising for a country that decided to apply the counter word used with birds to rabbits, too, so that they could eat them in an era when only poultry was acceptable.

]]> By: Ken Y-N http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-143829 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:52:57 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/#comment-143829 Janne, you are indeed correct, and it was my mistake in my footnote – the more popular salmon, number 3 in the list, was the Japanese sake. 4 was saba. My confusion at the difference between 鮭 and サーモン still stands though!

]]> By: Janne http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-143828 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:06:33 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/01/08/fish-eating-and-vegetarian-statistics-in-japan/#comment-143828 さば、鯖 is mackerel, not salmon. Salmon is さけ、鮭。I know the difference well as my wife likes salmon and hates mackerel and she’d probably club me to death with it if I came home with the wrong thing.

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