tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544279062280496043.post1625418910365887458..comments2023-10-31T02:31:23.227+09:00Comments on Visual Anthropology of Japan - 日本映像人類学: "Eat Japanese!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544279062280496043.post-54501291987037077282009-02-26T21:38:00.000+09:002009-02-26T21:38:00.000+09:00The jelly fish thing was a joke: Since there have ...The jelly fish thing was a joke: Since there have been reports in about Japan being plagued by unprecedented amounts jelly fish (weren't the giant ones especially a new phenomenon?), they could solve two problems at once by overfishing them too.<BR/><BR/><I>Should I take my 12,000 yen and spend it on whale meat? Or teriyaki-burgers?</I><BR/><BR/>In the short term, you as an individual might benefit from buying cheaper foreign food and saving the rest of your money for something else. But what happens if everyone stops buying local products? The resulting mass unemployment makes the government go bankrupt, that's what. While KFC might be something of a tradition by now, a lot of the money spent at KFC goes straight to foreign hands (ingredients that are imported from overseas, whatever the Japanese branch pays for the parent company, etc.) and does nothing to support Japanese economy. And supporting Japanese economy is definitely a sound economic stance to take if you're the Japanese government, or even if you simply pay taxes in Japan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544279062280496043.post-24041418675988673222009-02-23T23:39:00.000+09:002009-02-23T23:39:00.000+09:00Thanks for the comment.Hasn't KFC become Japanese?...Thanks for the comment.<BR/><BR/>Hasn't KFC become Japanese? Take it away and what will they eat on Christmas? Or perhaps we should do away with that celebration in Japan as well... How would it affect the economy? This certainly gets complicated, doesn't it? When does something become a tradition? It seems KFC has been around in Japan as long as eating makizushi on setsubun (tradition invented by a nori/seaweed company). I might be wrong on the date - please correct me if I am. The point being is when does a tradition become traditional? And in this case, a Japanese tradition? <BR/><BR/>Japanese people eat jelly fish - is there something special about the giant ones?<BR/><BR/>Japanese government... sound economic stance... really? Should I take my 12,000 yen and spend it on whale meat? Or teriyaki-burgers?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I think globalization has changed the idea of self-sufficiency. What is the self now?visual gonthroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00441698021838798417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544279062280496043.post-81167843208571802142009-02-23T22:50:00.000+09:002009-02-23T22:50:00.000+09:00Japan won't be self-sufficient until they figure o...Japan won't be self-sufficient until they figure out how to grow meat in vats. Like KFC.<BR/><BR/>Or make the giant jellyfish edible.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, I don't think it's strange or unreasonable for the government to promote local products: don't all governments do this to some extent? Of course the fish the Japanese is eat is hardly a "local product", so saying "eat more traditional Japanese food" does nothing to solve the problem. It still is a sound economical stance for the government to take.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com