Japan is quickly embracing halal-certified food which the culinary industry considers a very smart move given that global trade in halal food and beverage is reported to be $1.4 trillion a year and with Indonesia being relatively nearby (featuring the world’s largest Muslim population), the hope for Japan would be that Muslim tourism would flourish.
Sushi Ken in the Taito district of Tokyo is one of numerous restaurants in Japan that now serve halal-certified food (which bans the use of alcohol and pork, and requires slaughter of animals to be done by a Muslim individual). One halal business, Tsutau Co., has enlisted a health and nutrition professor at Bunkyo University to come up with recipes for a new halal cuisine website with the emphasis of ingredients like soy sauce without alcohol and halal-certified meats.
