The Ministry Agriculture, Forestry Fisheries and Tuna

initial popularity: Fueling the trend was the westernizing of the Japanese diet, according to Asahi Shimbun. Once the asset-inflated economy collapsed and prices fell, tuna even became available to ordinary folk. The initial popularity was triggered by the period of rapid economic growth that began in the 1960s. Statistics kept by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on all types of tuna illustrate how rapidly consumption has increased. That grew to between 60,000 and 80,000 tons from about 1926, when the Showa Era, which ended in 1989, began. The annual domestic catch of tuna was only between 10,000 and 20,000 tons until about 1920. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.