Okinawans Eat Lots of Canned Tuna
“Himitsu no Kenmin Show” shows us that people in Okinawa buy large boxes of canned tuna on a weekly basis, something that people living in other parts of Japan would find very bizarre:
Much like Okinawa’s love of buttered toast with spaghetti, this culinary oddity can trace its origins back to the period when America owned and administered the prefecture (1945 to 1972). American canned food was cheap and plentiful, and islanders incorporated it into all kinds of traditional recipes.
According to Hagoromo Foods, the company that sells Sea Chicken brand tuna, Okinawa has the highest rate of tuna consumption in Japan – 5 times the national average. Okinawa is the only prefecture in Japan in which their tuna is sold at normal super markets by the case.
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