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an intricately marbled cut of meat this
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is Japan's world-famous Courbet beef it
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comes from cows raised for three years
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using strict guidelines Japan delights
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gourmets with steak yakitori sukiyaki
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tonkatsu and other meat dishes but for
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1,200 years Japan actually prohibited
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meat consumption as we'll see
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rice played a role in that ban this time
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on jabber knology plus we look at some
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cultural features of meat eating in
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Japan
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hello welcome to Japan on G+ I'm Peter
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Barca in recent years there seems to be
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an increasing number of vegans around
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the world
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so today's program may have limited
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appeal we're going to be talking about
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meat we're a carnivore like myself
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Japan has plenty to offer in that area I
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mean core bear city which is world
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famous for its beef so much so that in
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2009 when President Barack Obama came to
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Japan Kobe beef was firmly on his wish
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list these days you'll find a wide
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variety of meat in any Japanese
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supermarket but regular consumption of
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meat has only been widespread in Japan
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for about 50 years and in the past
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several hundreds of years the eating of
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meat was actually prohibited in Japan on
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today's program we'll take a look at the
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reasons for that and what brought about
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the change in attitudes in recent years
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for many people the phrase Japanese food
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conjures up images of fish rather than
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meat but let's ask some people what they
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like to eat the Japanese diet has
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changed dramatically over the past 50
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years
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in 1960 the average person ate only 3.5
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kilograms of meat per year but by 2017
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that figure was thirty two point seven
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kilos nearly ten times as much by
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comparison
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seafood consumption stood at just twenty
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four point four kilos and that amount is
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in decline
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a Tokyo department store in sight is a
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specialist meat counter
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there are separate sections for chicken
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beef and pork prices are higher here
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than they would be at a supermarket
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chicken thigh is about 400 yen for 100
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grams pork loin is 670 yen for 100 grams
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and beef loin 2500 yen for 100 grams
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each cut is individually wrapped
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so what meat dishes are popular in Japan
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steak and fried chicken are common
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worldwide but Japan also offers some
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unique takes on dishes featuring me one
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example is sukiyaki beef fat is melted
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in a special pattern thin strips of beef
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are frying then you add sugar and soy
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sauce
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when the meat is browned on both sides
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it's dipped in beaten egg before being
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eaten next is shabu shabu thin strips of
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meat are cooked by swishing them around
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in a pan of boiling stock they are eaten
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with sesame or citrus sources after the
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mead you add vegetables like mushrooms
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greens and carrots
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this is yakitori bite-sized pieces of
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chicken cooked on skewers over a
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charcoal grill
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there are two main types of seasoning
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salt or padam tatah is a sweet thick soy
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based source countless other dishes
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including con katsu and nikujaga feature
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meat cooked or seasons in a
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japanese-style yakiniku restaurants
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where you grill meat at your table exist
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in huge numbers plans are especially
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popular with younger diners
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mutton and lamb are also eaten in Japan
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for example they are used in genius gun
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a dish cooked on a specially don't grill
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Thanks the dishes like these meat takes
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up an increasingly large portion of the
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Japanese diet this time on Japanese A+
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our guest is Knoblauch Harada a
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professor at Kukushkin University his
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work shines a light on Japanese culinary
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culture and the key developments in its
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history we're at a top-class
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steak restaurant in central Corbin the
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chef a 10-year veteran serves Kobe beef
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one of Japan's three most renowned
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varieties here's the main ingredient I
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think this is the first time I've ever
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eaten haven't eaten yet at a restaurant
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with a Michelin star so I'm sure we're
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in for something special with beef of
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this quality I'm sure it's going to set
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my bankaccount back quite a bit perhaps
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we should find out how much before we
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eat today's beef cost 16,000 yen for a
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hundred grams okay
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just to be prepared thank you when it
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comes to top-class beef prices like that
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and no surprise for most people eating
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this kind of food is a
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once-in-a-lifetime experience
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the two diners I the small piece of
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frying meat apprehensively how does it
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how often do you eat me say how many
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days of the week
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quite often I'd say at least four days a
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week
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something like that I'm probably
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something like that the actual amount of
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meat
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in one time it's probably not an awful
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lot
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it looks good it smell good and even
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sounds good you can enjoy it with every
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one of your senses after browning you
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let it cook very slowly what happens
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then
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well the juices are trapped inside that
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boosts the umami and the meat becomes
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wonderfully soft
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sharpness of the knife is amazing the
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way you slice it changes the taste yes
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you're supposed to cut it in such a way
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that the juices stay in if you're
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careless you damage the tissue of the
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meat and that will let the juices escape
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even high quality meats its heavily in
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the stomach if you eat too much and a
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normal-sized portion of beef like this
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would cost a fortune so the restaurant
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serves portions of 100 to 150 grams it's
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tender and absolutely full of flavor it
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really literally melts in the mouth when
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it's cooking and when you eat it the
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meat gives off a unique scent we call
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that the Wagyu aroma took a what to say
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that was just fantastic when you talk
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about Japanese food immediately the the
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things that come to mind uh sushi and
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sashimi and tempered on a lot of things
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that use fish but according to recent
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statistics it seems that Japanese people
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in general are now actually eating more
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meat than fish which is it was a little
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bit surprising to me when I first heard
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that today Japanese people eat lots of
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meat but up until relatively recently
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things were very different
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they still ate a great deal of fish it
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really was a very recent change today
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we're here in this restaurant having
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this amazing
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Kobe beef but for hundreds of years
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there was a prohibition against Japanese
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people eating meat so let's take a look
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at why and how that happened how did the
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Japanese relationship with me develop
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through history over 10,000 years ago
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Japanese people hunted and ate deer wild
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boar and other animals but when rice
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cultivation arrived fire the Korean
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Peninsula three thousand years ago the
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new club began to dominate the diet
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in the late sixth century Buddhism came
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to Japan the religion forbids killing
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and so as it spread meat consumption
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declined
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one particularly devout Buddhist was the
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10 new emperor in 675 he banned the
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consumption of animal meat an act that
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made an enormous impact on the national
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diet it marked the beginning of a 1200
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year period of prohibition the ban
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finally came to an end during the Meiji
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Restoration
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when lifestyle shifted to follow a more
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Western model in 1872 the Meiji Emperor
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revoked the prohibition of meat and
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began eating it himself he said I didn't
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do it for my health it was necessary as
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a way to build better relationships with
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foreigners national isolation had ended
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and meat-eating was now regarded as
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vital for international exchange
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as meat had been banned for so long at
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first the public at launch didn't take
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to him but people experimented using
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condiments like soy sauce and miso and
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they created dishes that suited the
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Japanese palate beef in particular
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became a symbol of westernization and
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among earlier doctors miso beef hot pots
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were popular soon enough meat-eating
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had spread across the whole country
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yakitori I mean just the aroma events
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enough to make your mouth water enough
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something as good as this
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it's amazing that for so long Japanese
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people weren't allowed to eat this now
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the burn on eating meat was what twelve
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hundred years in 675 the ten new emperor
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introduced what we call the ban on meat
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the animals the ban covered were cows
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horses chickens dogs and monkeys which
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are very similar to humans but the ban
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only applied to those five animals
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everything else including wild boar and
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venison was still allowed also the ban
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only applied from the time rice was
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planted to when it was harvested just
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that period in other words those animals
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couldn't be killed and eaten between
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April and September the leaders of the
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past thought that if people ate meat
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during those times they wouldn't make a
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good rice that's what the people in
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charge believed what was the logic for
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not being able to grow the rice properly
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of people reading meat
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for the Japanese rice is a sacred food
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rice or rice based products like sake
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and mochi rice cakes are used as
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offerings at shrines rice was a sacred
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offering to the deities but meat on the
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other hand was seen as unclean that at
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least is the view that took hold after
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the ten move Emperor issued his ban if
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you became ritually impure were there
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certain particular things that happened
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to you or did people think so people
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believed that meat-eating would cause
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blindness or contort your mouth they
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were common superstitions they even
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believed that the impurity could spread
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from person to person so if person a ate
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meat they were impure for 100 days after
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100 days had passed they would be back
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to normal but if they shared a meal with
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person B during that time B was impure
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for 30 days so a ate meat and B didn't
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but the fact that a and B ate together
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was enough to make the impurity spread
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for 30 days yes 30 and let's say there's
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a person C who's never even met a if C
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eats with B then C becomes impure for 7
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days but the impurity disappears beyond
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that okay so if you're d you're cool and
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other particular periods within that
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twelve hundred years when the
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prohibitions were particularly severe or
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perhaps were more lenient the
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limitations were at their most strict in
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the 17th to 19th centuries the Edo
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period at that time rice was used to
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measure the value of everything from the
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size of settlements to the economic
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power of Lords
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therefore the cultivation of rice spread
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for political reasons meat was seen as
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the unclean opposite of rice and that is
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why it was shunned in the Edo period and
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that lasted all the way through to the
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end of the Edo period like two hundred
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and fifty years there was a degree of
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flexibility for example people with
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frail health could eat meat to get their
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strength back it was seen as a kind of
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medicine people also used that kind of
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logic so again this is an indication
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that despite it being strictly
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prohibited people did want to eat it
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they did like eating meat so they found
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a way to get around the problem to the
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prohibitions that's right in the past
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Japanese people ate a lot of wild boar
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and deer they were known as whales of
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the mountains and people ate them
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because they were seen as more like fish
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than Mitsuwa taisha shrine is
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particularly famous for selling a
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talisman that called a venison permit if
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you had that you could eat deer so there
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were loopholes like that
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Japan's famous for the whole idea of
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umami which Japanese take from things
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like seaweed in other countries I think
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they would get the same kind of thing
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from meat especially from the the fat
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would it be logical to assume the
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Japanese went to all these lengths of
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finding and women other things because
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they weren't eating meat a lot of
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countries use animal fat in their
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cooking as a source of but in Japan meat
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eating was ostensibly banned so people
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made sure to avoid meat when cooking
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formally that's why people used seaweed
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or fish for umami flavor we saw that
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development in the aro period when the
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restrictions on meat consumption were
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most severe we have the best of both
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worlds these days yes indeed in the
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modern era we have yakitori like this
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sukiyaki tonkatsu and so on we've
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developed an approach to food where meat
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and fish are equally enjoyable
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wanky is the name for native Japanese
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cattle where is Japan and kill refers to
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beef the exquisitely marbled beef that
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these breeds produce has made a name for
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itself all over the world
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hi I'm Matt alt and this is plus one
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today I'm deep in the mountains of me a
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Prefecture in a little town called
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Matsuzaka this is where they raised
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Matsuzaka cattle which are used to make
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Matsusaka beef one of the most famous
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brands of Wagyu in all of Japan there's
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lots of tips and tricks and techniques
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to making this beef taste so good and
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that's what I'm gonna check out on
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today's episode as you can see I've had
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to change into a special protective
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outfit this isn't to protect me it's to
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protect the cows from any germs that we
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humans bring in as you can see it's not
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just me but the whole crew hello there
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thank you for having me today
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tell me all about not to suck on you
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let's get started
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Matt disinfects his shoes first of all
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how many cattle do you have here 55 the
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three most prominent types of yq--
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Matsuzaka only and Colbert all use carbs
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from Tajima in her goal but they're
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raised in different climates using
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different techniques
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Matsusaka beef includes a special
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variety that is made using virgin female
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Tajima cattle fattened for over 900 days
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to produce a top-class meat hygiene
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management is taken very seriously on
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average 50 to 100 animals are raised at
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each farm and in principle they don't
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graze outside instead farmers take
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personal care of each one of them
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do you feed them any special types of
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food we perfected our feed over many
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years it's a blend of oats wheat bran
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corn and soybeans this looks like a
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really nice premium breakfast cereal you
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can eat it it's tasty go ahead it's
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pretty good Wow it's like muesli this is
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really good as we slowly fatten the cows
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the aroma and sweetness of the grain is
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absorbed those qualities get right into
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the meat so what are we doing here
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messaging the cows is this also key to
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why matsuzaka beef tastes so good that's
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right
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massaging them improves this circulation
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it also reduces stress can I give it a
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try go right ahead
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this is fun
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hey we paid a visit to another nearby
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farm
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well first of all it's so clean and nice
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in here it's oh yes you want stress-free
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cows with a good appetite hygiene is a
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part of that creating an appropriate
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living environment for the cows is
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clearly an important key to success
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as I understand it Matsuzaka beef is
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famed for how marbled it is is there
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some special way to get that after we
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receive a calf the first year is
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make-or-break we have to fatten them up
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then we feed them a set amount for three
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years and that creates wonderfully
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marbled meat well I met the cows now
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it's time to eat the meat
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what does Matsuzaka beef taste like this
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is my first time trying it and this
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restaurant which is established in 1902
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is famed for its Matsuzaka beef
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follow me well this is it
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the main course sukiyaki give us
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cornerguy CMOS the meat so what do you
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think makes Matsuzaka beef taste
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different from other types of these oh
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my god there we see this me sukiyaki
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needs about the decided though to mess
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it up I can see it's very marbled hey so
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there's a necklace with similar - isn't
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it okay well that's we say in Japan
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ether lucky mas look at this
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oh wow it's incredibly mild but get rich
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at the same time I wouldn't meet doc I
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meet though you love allah almighty said
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oh thank you so much for cooking for me
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today well there you have it the
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legendary Matsusaka beef of japan next
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time you come to Japan keep an eye out
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for wonderful brands of meat like this
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and restaurants where people will cook
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it for you
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it's a great place to have a party or
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like me just enjoy yourself that's what
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I'll be doing until you tune in again
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next time
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this whole thing with marbled beef
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really is a big deal why do you think
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that is it's actually not limited to
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just beef people in Japan also really
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enjoy fatty fish there's a strong
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conviction that flesh containing fat
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tastes better than other varieties and
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because we believe that marbled meat is
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delicious I would say that this is what
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we've always sought as we developed our
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knowledge and technology on the other
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hand when I was first here at in Japan
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you didn't used to hear about his
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marbled beef with something that one
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hurt started hearing about a little more
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recently I think again I'm sure there
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must be a reason for that beef imports
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were liberalized in 1991 and then a
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large volume of cheap beef arrived from
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countries like the United States when
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that happened
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Japan's livestock farmers were forced to
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differentiate their products they needed
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a way to make their products stand out
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the quality they decided to pursue was
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taste they aimed to develop a marbled
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beef that melts in the mouth a style of
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meat that wasn't found in other
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countries that was their goal or today
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definitely has been a bit of a treat but
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living in Japan and you eat I mean a lot
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of different kinds of meat and there are
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things that we all take for granted
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which are really quite simple
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for example there's strips of pork
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cooked with ginger and onions which is
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something that I first met when I first
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came to Japan 40 something years ago
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don't think twice about but there are
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these things that you really don't get
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outside of Japan and they have all these
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absolutely delicious ways of cooking
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regular not expensively and I think
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perhaps it's worth mentioning those
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things because they are part of
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the Japanese food culture and anybody
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can partake of them anytime for very
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very reasonable amounts of money it's
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true that marbled beef commands a high
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price tag but Japan certainly does make
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cheap and delicious dishes available to
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everyone as well meat based cuisine is
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booming that I'm thankful that such
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fantastic food is available on an
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everyday basis thank you very much thank
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you very much Japan has developed
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top-of-the-range meat like corbeil beef
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as well as cheap and casual dishes that
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anyone can enjoy this broad assortment
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adds to the rich variety of Japanese
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cuisine
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next time on Japanese Plus popular
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theater we explore a unique style of
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performance with a broad appeal that has
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lasted for hundreds of years
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