How Japan Invented a Secret Cuisine

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There's a cuisine within the cuisine of Japanese food, and it contains a lot of dishes you might not associate with Japan. This time we look into "yoshoku", Japan's western-inspired cuisine and how it depicts a relatively homogenous country as one that is open to changing the features that define its culture.

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Credits:
Producer - Matthew Li
Production Assistant - Mana Chuabang
Script Supervisor - Louis Govier

Special thanks:
Yusef Iqbal
Yeevonne Lim
Dylan Payne
Brandon Goddard
Kevin Thomas

Timestamps:
0:00 - The restaurant that invented tonkatsu and omurice
1:46 - Japanese hamburg steak
3:35 - Sakoku
5:57 - The Meiji Restoration
7:22 - The cuisine of yoshoku
9:00 - Eating yoshoku dishes
11:55 - The legacy of yoshoku