{"id":77416,"date":"2026-05-20T12:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/20\/navy-curry-japan-kaigun-kare-obsession"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:15:23","slug":"full-steam-ahead-how-navy-curry-conquered-hearts-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77416","title":{"rendered":"Full steam ahead: how \u2018navy curry\u2019 conquered hearts in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought to have been introduced by Anglo-Indian officers in the Royal Navy in the 1800s, the dish has since spiralled into a national obsession<\/p>\n<p>The sailors aboard the navy vessel Hashidate know what\u2019s for lunch long before the telltale aromas escape from the galley.<\/p>\n<p>Yosuke Oyama, the ship\u2019s chef, has been up since dawn, softening onions and occasionally stirring a pot of chicken stock that has been simmering for several hours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/20\/navy-curry-japan-kaigun-kare-obsession\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought to have been introduced by Anglo-Indian officers in the Royal Navy in the 1800s, the dish has since spiralled into a national obsessionThe sailors aboard the navy vessel Hashidate know what\u2019s for lunch long before the telltale aromas escape fro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1618,311,88,938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-curry","category-food","category-japan","category-military"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77417,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77416\/revisions\/77417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}