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@Oliver Schick
I didn't know that Japan for 1200 years was supposedly vegetarian under orders from the emperor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_vegetarianism#Japan
Needless to say, there would still have been a good deal of meat-eating when the authorities weren't looking.