Japanology Plus
Season 6 Episode 8 - Meat
Japan offers a huge variety of meat dishes, including sumptuous wagyu beef and casual chicken skewers. But these highlights of Japanese cuisine are recent developments; meat consumption was actually banned in Japan for 1,200 years. This time on Japanology Plus, our theme is meat. Our main guest, Professor Nobuo Harada of Kokushikan University, explains the history behind meat-eating in Japan. And in Plus One, Matt Alt discovers how livestock farmers achieve such wonderfully marbled beef.
Episodes in Season 6
Roof Tilers
28 min
Japanophiles: Thomas Bertrand
28 min
Hidden Christians: Part 1
28 min
Hidden Christians: Part 2
28 min
Wood: Culture
28 min
Wood: Carpentry
28 min
Japanophiles: Oussouby Sacko
28 min
Meat
28 min
Popular Theater
28 min
Oni: Japanese Ogres
28 min
Japanese Dog Breeds
28 min
Japanophiles: Peter MacMillan
28 min
Konamon: Flour-based Cuisine
28 min
Frozen Food
28 min
Slippers
28 min
Japanophiles: Ondrej Hybl
28 min
Tokyo: Water
28 min
Tokyo: Backstreets and Alleys
28 min
Mechanical Dolls
28 min
Swords
28 min
Bathrooms
28 min
Japanophiles: David Atkinson
28 min
Monkeys
28 min
Banknotes
28 min
Plasterwork
28 min
Japanophiles: Wolfgang Loeger
28 min
Insects
28 min
Donburi: Rice Bowls
28 min