How does the religion in Japan affect the country's food culture?

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Answer 1

I am a former chef and worked in japan back in the 1980's and it does not control there food intake, but Buddhist and Shinto believers will not eat meat or any product from an animal, no butter, milk, eggs, fish or other foods produced by an animal.

They subsist mainly on soya products, veg and veg by products, there are alot of veg in Japan with a good nutritional base, and they are able to live on the foods available for them.