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by macrolime 1307 days ago
Many popular Japanese things are actually Norwegian. Like salmon sushi and Kirin beer. I wonder how well known that's in Japan.

Norway was looking for new salmon markets in the 90s and came up with the idea of salmon sushi

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501693/how-norwegian-sal...

Kirin beer was started by a Norwegian brewer in 1869.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Copeland_(brewer)