Beef in Japan

Beef is so expensive that few people can afford to buy much. A pound of sirloin can cost between fifteen and twently dollars in Japan. That's between thirty-five and forty dollars a kilo. And that's the price in a supermarket. You can imagine how much it costs to order beef in a restaurant. To them, beef in other countries is really inexpensive.

Although they do have beef cattle in Japan, it's costly to raise them. They have to import the feed grain. They don't have the large areas of pasture land necessary for large-scale beef production. That is why it's so expensive in Japan.

Most people like pork and chicken. And since they both cost much less than beef, they eat them much more often. But still the price of pork and chicken in Japan is about double what it costs in the United States or Europe.