Vegetarians are minor stream group in Japan.
素食者在日本，可以算得上是--弱勢團體。
It is hard for a vegetarian to find vegetarian
restaurants in Japan (you cannot deny that
it is really hard to refuse the seduction of tasty
seafood in such an island country for a non-vegetarian).
Of course, Indian restaurants are one of the choices;
but besides Indian ones, you just cannot
imagine why there are such few vegetarian
restaurants in a developped country like
Japan.
在日本要找到素食餐廳，需要費上時間，
（對一個非素食者，
要拒絕美味的海鮮的確很難，
尤其是在日本這樣一個海島國家）
當然，印度料理店或許是一個選擇，
但除了印度料理店外，您很難想象
在日本這樣一個先進國家，
爲何人們對素食的觀念依然如此淡薄？
A friend from Holand and some friends
from Indians used to tell me
"it is difficult for general Japanese to understand
why people want to be vegetarians; but it is hard for
us to understand why the Japanese who have lots
of chances to contact the vegetarians from Indians or
from other countries still cannot realize what vegetarians
think and why vegetarians do not want to eat meat,
garlics, onions. leeks, and seafood...."
曾有一位荷蘭來的朋友，和一些來自印度的朋友們說，
“一般的日本人不了解素食者的想法，
這點我們可以理解，
但爲何，一些時常接觸外國素食者的日本人
卻仍然不了解素食者的想法呢？
Maybe we should not blame Japanese, who
do not understand the meaning of being
vegetarians.
Maybe vegetarians in Japan are a group of
too silent people,
who silently eat vegetarian food at home,
who bring their own lunch boxes
to a Japanese barbecue party,
who silently feel sorry that no Japanese friends
really want to know the reasons why vegetarians
give up tasty meat and seafood.
也許我們不應該責備日本人，他們爲何不了解
素食者的想法。
也許， 在日本的素食者太沉默；
默默地在家吃素食；
去參加朋友的烤肉Party，
自己默默地帶自做的素食便當，
外食的時候，默默地挑掉魚肉，
怕朋友問起一堆問題，怕要解釋很多，
又怕解釋不好朋友不了解，
怕朋友誤解了素食的美意；
Why a vegetarian want to be a vegetarian??
I think I should say something in my next new
post.....because Japanese people have the
right to know the reasons....
爲何素食者要成爲素食者？
在下一篇文章中，應該要寫給大家看，
因爲，畢竟素食是件美事，大家有權利
知道吃素對身心靈的好處，也有權利知道
爲何素食者對素食甘之如飴？.....
