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Minor technical point: the U.S. didn't exactly "send" wheat to Japan.
They made it appear that they were giving it away, bit in actual fact they were forcing Japan to buy it and supplant the rice culture.
The U.S. Had lost a major customer for its wheat and saw Japan as a potential replacement market.
This was aided on part by puppet government officials receiving incentives, but Japan spent a long time paying the U.S. Back.
There became a black market for wheat, which yielded the growth of street vendor ramen stalls.
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I meant tonkotsu and mispelled it.
Also, I know tonkotsu (the ramen) isn't chinese, but they have ramen in China. And actually, in The Untold History of Ramen they talk about how the origin was a Chinese soup with noodles in a pork broth that migrated to Japan and then the Japanese took it and ran with it.
That's besides the point though...Do you think in China they only have Chinese restaurants? Do you think they don't have ramen shops and all kinds of other ethnic cuisines...? They have every kind of food in China, just like we do in the west where we have restaurants of different ethnicities. Not sure why you had such a big problem with this.