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    • The Kagoshima Berkshire, Japanese: かごしま黒豚, is a Japanese breed of domestic pig found in Kagoshima prefecture in south-western Japan. It derives from the Berkshire breed of pig of the United Kingdom, which was imported to Japan from the 1860s and is now widespread there. The Kagoshima Berkshire apparently descends from two British … See more

    Conservation statusFAO (2007): not at risk
    Country of originJapan
    Usemeat
    History

    Until about the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, meat was rarely eaten in Japan, for cultural, economic, and religious reasons. British Berkshire pigs were imported to the former Kagoshima Domain, now Kagoshima Prefecture, … See more

    Further reading

    • Yosuke Sasaki, Ryoko Uemura, Masuo Sueyoshi (2013). Reproductive and lifetime performances of Kagoshima Berkshire. Journal of Veterinary Epidemiology 17 (1): 26–27.
    • Yosuke Sasaki, Tadaaki Tokunaga, Ryoko Ue… See more

     
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