Japan’s market for imported pork is large

Japan has long been known as the number one pork importing country in the world. Although it recently lost this position to China, the country’s dependency on pork imports is likely to stay. What does that mean for years to come? Japan is in the top-10 pork producing countries in the world, and produces around 1.3 million metric tonnes of pork per year. However, 2016 total pork consumption in Japan is about 2.6 million tonnes. In 2015, Japan accounted for almost 20% of the global trade in pi