Comments on Teaching English abroad in Japan: Being Vegetarian in Japan: The Worst Things

Back when Japan was true to its Buddhist roots, it...

2011-07-06T03:26:59.741-07:00

Back when Japan was true to its Buddhist roots, it was generally vegetarian. Anything with legs was considered of a higher order and, thus, was not eaten. Fish, however, does not have legs. Eventually people started to associating it with the vegetarian cuisine.

In japan it is the worst situation for vegetarian ...

2010-01-25T04:52:58.184-08:00

In japan it is the worst situation for vegetarian to eat outside except to cook at the home.
But i wonder that in europe is there any vegetarian society or funda to be pure vegetarian?
If anyone answer than I will be thankful...

I've been a veggie for almost 20 years, and 6 ...

2009-06-27T02:53:39.731-07:00

I've been a veggie for almost 20 years, and 6 of those have been in Japan.

Most people who come to Japans as new veggies will lapse in a year or so... luckily I had 1/2 my life behind me as a veggie when I stepped of the plane.

I'd love to meet (or make) a veggie group here in Kansai.

- George, Osaka

You hit the nail on the head in this whole post. L...

2009-06-24T13:20:05.736-07:00

You hit the nail on the head in this whole post. Last time I was living in Japan I became what I refer to as a don't ask don't tell vegetarian (but would be perhaps better described as lazy or defeated). Basically, I stopped looking at ingredients, stopped trying in vain to pick out bonito flakes and quit asking at restaurants about the ingredients of each dish. If it is not visible, I don't do anything about it. I still don't eat meat in general, and if there is flesh or something chunky I will get it on the side and let a companion eat it instead... But as I prepare to return to Japan for the next few years, I am dreading the return of that inevitable fishy flavor to everything. (PS. I will never understand why people in Japan or otherwise don't see seafood as meat.)

I found this vlog about being a vegetarian in Japa...

2009-06-24T07:38:25.076-07:00

I found this vlog about being a vegetarian in Japan a few months ago. Maybe it can help you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB3C2yK0oIU

About fish not being considerated meat, that's regular here in Brazil too. People often say to me: "oh, you're a vegetarian? but you don't even eat fish?". It's kind of annoying, but you get used to it. I think it's worse when they think you just don't eat "red meat". So you ask for meat-free sugestions and they begin: "we have tuna or chicken". Chicken!