There are also plenty of other countries who eat insects, regarded as nutritious & full of protein, like Thailand, Japan, South America, Africa etc. Even Americans are becoming more accepting, with over ten insect festivals each year like the Bug Bowl at Purdue University and restaurants like Typhoon, in Santa Monica, that serves insect delicacies.
Insects have enjoyed a place at the Japanese dinner table for many centuries. There insect foods are exotic, local niche items that the vast majority of modern Japanese have never try even once in the course of their lifetimes.
No Japanese eats insects in sushi-style. These photos were probably taken for a special purpose.
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I lived in Japan for two years and my mother is Japanese. I have never seen or heard of anyone in Japan eating insects in Japan except in my grandfather's stories of having to eat grasshoppers once or twice during the war because there was no food.
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