Japanese schoolbook adapted after riot about snack

tokio - A Japanese publisher has apologized because a local delicacy from Okinawa in a schoolbook was compared with radioactive waste. The textbook had already been approved by experts, but because of the controversy about the comparison is still being adjusted.

The comparison comes from a British writer, who would have swallowed his 'tofuyo' too quickly. 'My mouth was on fire. It felt like I had eaten a cross between Roquefort and nuclear waste, but apparently it's good for you ', wrote the author according to the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. The quote was included in the English-language book for high school students.

The description fell badly on the Japanese island, where a local newspaper paid attention to the school book. 'Okinawa's delicious food has the taste of radioactive waste?' Wrote the newspaper, who concluded that the disputed description could lead to misunderstandings.

The publisher later went deeply through the dust. 'We have not sufficiently taken into account Okinawan prefecture', a top employee from Bun-eido Publishing Co. acknowledged. 'We sympathize with people who love tofuyo. '