About

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Hi, I'm MITA 🇯🇵

I live in Japan and have been cooking plant-based Japanese food at home for years. The Japanese side of this site — vegeness.com — has more than 3,000 of my vegan recipes, built up one home-cooked meal at a time.

Why this site exists

Japanese food is often seen abroad as fish-first: dashi, bonito flakes, seafood everywhere. But Japan also has a centuries-old tradition of plant-based cooking — shojin ryori, the temple cuisine — and a modern home-cooking culture full of vegetables, tofu, beans and fermented staples. This site translates that everyday Japanese plant-based cooking for English-speaking kitchens.

What makes these recipes different

Everything is cooked by me, in Japan. Every recipe and photo comes from my own stove — no stock photos, no AI-generated images.
Tested for US kitchens. Each English recipe includes both US cups and metric weights, plus notes on where to find Japanese ingredients (and what to substitute).
Written, not translated. These aren't machine translations of my Japanese recipes — each one is rewritten for readers cooking outside Japan.

Contact

Questions or feedback? I'd love to hear from you — see the Japaneseoperator page for company details.