We are looking for detailed information on native Japanese foods. Can anyone help?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_food\n\nThat is an extensive page about the Japanese cuisine, as well as background on the art. Some famous Japanese dishes, as said in the site, are:\n\nDeep-Fried dishes (Agemono)\n\n    * Korokke (croquette) - breaded and deep-fried balls of mashed potato with creamy vegetable, seafood, or meat-flavored fillings.\n    * Kushiage - meat deep fried on a skewer.\n    * Tempura - battered and deep-fried vegetables, seafood, and meat.\n    * Tonkatsu - deep-fried breaded cutlet of pork (chicken versions called chicken katsu).\nDonburi\n\nA one-bowl dish of hot steamed rice with various savory toppings\n\n    * Katsudon - deep-fried breaded cutlet of pork (tonkatsudon), chicken (chicken katsudon) or fish (e.g., magurodon)\n    * Oyakodon - (Parent and Child) Usually chicken and egg but sometimes salmon and salmon roe\n    * Gyūdon - seasoned beef\n    * Tempuradon - battered, deep fried bite-sized foods\nGrilled and pan-fried dishes (Yakimono)\n\n    * Gyoza - Chinese dumplings (potstickers), usually filled with pork and vegetables\n    * Hamachi Kama - grilled yellow tail tuna jaw and cheek bone\n    * Kushiyaki - meat and vegetable kebabs\n    * Okonomiyaki - pan-fried batter cakes with various savory toppings (see also Okonomiyaki restaurants)\n    * Omu-Raisu - i.e. "omelette rice", a fried ketchup-flavored rice sandwiched with a thinly spread beaten egg or covered with a plain egg omelette\n    * Omu-Soba - an omelette with yakisoba as its filling\n    * Takoyaki - a spherical, fried dumpling of batter with a piece of octopus inside\n    * Teriyaki - grilled, broiled, or pan-fried meat, fish, chicken or vegetables glazed with a sweetened soy sauce\n    * Unagi, including kabayaki - grilled and flavored eel\n    * Yakisoba - Japanese style fried noodles\n    * Yakitori - chicken kebabs\nNabemono (one pot cooking)\n\n    * Sukiyaki - mixture of noodles, thinly sliced beef, egg and vegetables boiled in a special sauce made of fish broth, soy sauce, sugar and sake\n    * Shabu-shabu - noodles, vegetables and shrimp or thinly sliced beef boiled in a thin stock and dipped in a soy or sesame sauce before eating\n    * Motsunabe - cow intestine, hakusai (bok choi) and various vegetables are cooked in a light soup base\n    * Kimuchinabe - similar to motsunabe, except with a kimuchi base and using thinly sliced pork. Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish, but it has also become very popular in Japan, particularly in the southern island of Kyushu, which is situated closest to South Korea\n    * Oden\n    * Nikujaga, a Japanese version of beef stew.\nNoodles (men-rui)\n\nNoodles often take the place of rice in a meal. However, the Japanese appetite for rice is so strong that many restaurants even serve ramen-rice combination sets.\n\n    * Soba - thin brown buckwheat noodles served chilled with various toppings or in hot broth\n    * Ramen - thin light yellow noodle served in hot broth with various toppings; of Chinese origin, it is a popular and common item in Japan\n    * Udon - thick wheat noodle served with various toppings or in a hot shoyu and dashi broth\n    * Champon - yellow noodles of medium thickness served with a great variety of seafood and vegetable toppings in a hot broth which originated in Nagasaki as a cheap food for students\n    * Somen\n    * Okinawa soba - a wheat-flour noodle often served with sōki, steamed pork\nOther\n\n    * Agedashi tofu - cubes of deep-fried silken tofu served in hot broth\n    * Bento or Obento - combination meal served in a wooden box\n    * Hiyayakko - cold tofu dish\n    * Osechi - traditional food eaten at the New Year\n    * Natto - fermented soybeans, stringy like melted cheese, infamous amongst non-Japanese for its strong smell and slippery texture. Often eaten for breakfast. Typically popular in Kanto and less so in Kansai\n    * Shiokara - salty fermented viscera\n    * Chawan mushi - meat (seafood and/or chicken) and vegetables boil
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Try this:\n\nhttp://www.indiana.edu/~japan/digest5.html\n\nhttp://www.nise.go.jp/en/Special_Education_in_Japan.pdf
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In answering another question I found this website - maybe they have some pointers for you or someone you can talk to - http://www.foodaddicts.org/index.html \n\nJohn
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The first link is a site that has titles of Renaissance cookbooks (modern books that discuss what people ate back then)... you could check to see if your local  library has any of them in their collection.\n\nAlso, try the second link... I skimmed it and it SEEMS to be what you're looking for, but I'm not sure.\n\nGood luck!
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Here are some links that you might find useful:\n\nJim Breen's Japanese page\nhttp://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html\n\nhttp://www.learn-japanese.info/\n\nhttp://japanese.about.com/?once=true&\n\nhttp://www.thejapanesepage.com\n\nhttp://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/japan/index.html
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Here is a Japenese home buying site. Hope it helps!
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When I was learning Japanese I found Jim Breen's site to be absolutely indispensible. It covers hiragana, katakana, and kanji and has a brilliant search tool for when you come across kanji that you don't recognize. [1] [2]\n\nThe Yamasa Institute also has some great tools available on their site. [3]\n\nThe J<->E Dictionary site has some awesome resources that will help you out in numerous ways. [4]\n\nLastly, everything is available via a Google search. There really are a lot of sites devoted to the Japanese language and with some time you will find some great sites that suit your needs.
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http://japanese.about.com/bl50kanji4_genchi.htm\n\nthey show of pix of it here as well as the name.
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I like http://www.calorielab.com\n\nJust type in the food you are seeking calorie count for and you'll get more info than you imagined...lol!
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http://www.japanguid.com/ is going to help u to find a friend of Japanese. Good luck.
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Yahoo.com type in Japanese symbols. love and family are common so theyll be on the first website your visit.
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Here is a good site to begin learning about the food pyramid:\n\nhttp://www.mypyramid.gov/
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http://www.manythings.org/japanese/links/ has almost every good resource link for learning and practicing Japanese.\n\nYou can also buy books. I know Kodansha is a good company.\nhttp://www.sasugabooks.com/ has books you can buy (in Japanese but also instructional books for learning it). I found them to be fairly speedy deliverers when they have the books in stock and don't have to order from Japan.
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Here are a few websites for information on immergration to Japan
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Chinese Food Pyramid\nThe traditional Asian Pyramid is a thali that is round in shape and has similar portions to the map created by the USDA shown below.\n\nhttp://www.ethnicfoodsco.com/China/ChineseFoodPyramid.htm\n\nHave a nice day...\n☺☺☺
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Here's some good info to have.\nThere's a lot more info on the net than just the links I put, all you have to do is just type in Japanese swords or Samurai swords or anything like that in yahoo search or google or whatever search engine you use.
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Try going here http://www.spoono.com/ . They have a lot of interesting stuff.