Editing Offal (section)

===Japan===
{{see also|Japanese cuisine}}
[[File:ホルモン焼（むつ菊）.jpg|thumb|Japanese ''[[horumonyaki]]'']]

Japan also has a long history of eating offal, and the Manyoshu, an anthology compiled around the 7th to 8th century, mentions eating deer liver as a household dish and stomach as salted fish.
There is a popular belief in Japan that people did not eat offal, and that Japan was a Buddhist country and did not eat meat before the Meiji period. In fact, meat was well eaten in Japan even before the Meiji period, and there are many records in written sources, and there is a long history of eating offal in Japan.
A dish of horse offal cooked in a pot has been a common dish since the Edo period, and the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was located in present-day Okinawa, has been in existence since the 15th century and has a custom of eating pork in its entirety, including the offal.
Although there was an official ban on eating meat in Japan during the Edo period, the culture of eating meat actually continued, and many meat dishes from various animals are recorded in literature. In addition, there are still meat specialty restaurants in Japan that have been in business for 300 years. Hormon-yaki was previously known as motsu-yaki, and this dish has long been on the menus of Edo-era restaurants.
There is a popular belief that "nowadays, many restaurants specializing in offal (especially beef offal) can be found in the Korean style," but this is a misconception. In Japan, there is a dish called "Genghis Khan," which is a mutton barbecue dish invented in 1910, and together with "Horumonyaki," it is the root of Japanese yakiniku cuisine.
Korean yakiniku was born in the 1970s when "Japanese yakiniku cuisine" was introduced to Korea, and Japanese yakiniku restaurants began to be established in Korea around 1980. In Japan, horumon-yaki (grilled hormone) existed as an established dish before that, and a variety of organ meats are eaten. The correct answer is not "Korean style can be seen," but "Japanese offal cuisine was introduced and the culture of eating offal in Korea was established.