Kobe beef is so good! It's basically Japanese beef and it was also brought to Japan from China at the same time as the cultivation of rice.
Oh really? I have never heard of it before. I like japanese food too.
I hadn't heard of it until recently either, but it's really old, like from the  second century AD.
What makes it different to regular beef.?
It was based on how these "Improved Japanese Cattle" were raised and fed.
Oh I see. So I suppose it comes from superior cattle?
Yes, four separate strains to be exact.
well you learn something new everyday! I will have to give it a try.
and selected as "Improved Japanese Cattle". Four separate strains were characterised, based mainly on which type of foreign cattle had most influenced the hybrids, and were recognised as breeds in 1944. These were the four wagyū breeds, the Japanese Black, the Japanese Brown, the Japanese Polled and the Japanese Shorthorn. The Tajima is a strain of the Japanese Black, the most populous breed (around 90% of the four breeds).
Beef consumption remained low until after World War II. Kobe beef grew in popularity
Kobe beef
Kobe beef is also called , or in Japanese.
History.
Cattle were brought to Japan from China at the same time as the cultivation of rice, in about the second century AD, in the Yayoi period. Until about the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, they were used only as draught animals, in agriculture, forestry, mining and for transport, and as a source of fertiliser. Milk consumption was unknown, and – for cultural and religious reasons – meat was not eaten.