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Nowadays, Italian cuisine is considered the most delicious food in the world. However, Japanese cuisine is becoming very famous because people are newly discovering it. Both Japanese and Italian food are tasty, famous, use basic ingredients, and include healthy and unhealthy foods, but they include different main ingredients and dishes. Also, they differ in styles of cooking. Firstly, Japanese cuisine uses basic ingredients such as rice. Their main food sushi, which is very popular, is made from rice. In addition, seafood and vegetables are as important as rice. On the other hand, Italian cuisine uses some different ingredients such as whole grains and flour. The whole grain is used in making pasta whereas pizza is based on the flour. Both of these dishes can be served without other ingredients, but pasta dishes use usually meat and vegetables particularly tomato. Second, both Italian and Japanese cuisine include healthy and unhealthy foods. However, Japanese cuisine is probably a bit healthier than Italian cuisine. Japanese are said to have the longest life expectancy in the world, consequently, many people want to eat Japanese diet which consists of mainly rice, seafood and vegetables. In contrast, Italian food contains too many calories due to the fact that they include flour, grain and too much sugar. Therefore, eating a tasty Italian dish is not always a healthy option. Finally, both Japanese and Italian food are famous and popular because of globalization. Japanese cuisine has recently become more popular than before because Japanese culture is becoming more open to the world. In addition, there are many Japanese restaurants around the world, especially in big cities such as Paris, London, Berlin, and Istanbul. On the other hand, Italian restaurants are more popular than Japanese restaurants because Italian culture has been more open not just now, but also in the past. As a result, Italian cuisine has spread around the world more largely. To sum up, as the above points illustrate, Japanese and Italian cuisine differ from each other but they are both tasty and known all around the world.