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Eating cats was never common in Japan due to them having Buddhist and Shinto superstitions about killing things and eating animals that walked on four legs. They considered it cursed to eat them or something because humans walk on two legs. They generally never consumed meat from the 7th Century until the 19th Century when the Americans came to trade with them and wanted steak and burgers (no I'm not making this up). The Japs realized the Westerners were bigger and stronger than them, so they started adopting a more Western diet that included meat.