2022-2 Japanese Society [KU]

Project : Risky dining in Japanese society: Should we eat pufferfish?

Abstract :

T Have you ever eaten puffer fish? Pufferfish has been seen as poisonous fish and was proposed to be banned from human dining table in some research due to several intoxication cases and even death. However, somewhere on earth, the consumption of puffer fish remains popular for tourism and local dining tables mainly in Japan. To understand the issue of the puffer fish eating in Japan more clearly, this article dig in more deeply to under the puffer fish as a living creature and how they have been captured and eventually show up on human’s dining table. Consequently, there is some research questions needed to be answered. The first serial question, what is puffer fish? Are all kinds of puffer fish is poisonous? What kinds of puffer fish are poisonous? The second serial question, how puffer fish eating culture occurred in the world and Japan? How did the society accept the concept of eating puffer fish? The third serial questions is, Should we eat puffer fish? With these three serial questions, hopefully, we can understand the Japan society in the dining aspect from an interesting perspective.

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Project : Risky dining in Japanese society: Should we eat pufferfish?, 2022-2 Japanese Society[KU], YANG YU HSIANG