Japan aims to take a leadership position in the alt-meat market in Asia.
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With discussion of the alternative meats market in the Asia-Pacific region mostly focused on the size of the consumer market in China, the regulatory leadership of Singapore, or the innovation and investment centered in Australia, Japan’s role to play has been mostly overlooked. But the country, relatively small in numbers — at No. 11 in terms of population and No. 62 in terms of area — supports the third-largest economy in the world, behind the United States…