Japanese cuisine doesn’t use large amounts of meat but most dishes are prepared with some ingredients of animal origin. Fish stocks are ubiquitous, for example.

Japanese cuisine doesn’t use large amounts of meat but most dishes are prepared with some ingredients of animal origin. Fish stocks are ubiquitous, for example. I can only imagine that a strict vegan would have a hard time finding suitable food. On the other hand, a typical omnivore Westerner will usually eat far less meat than usual while in Japan.