Japanese cheese

I made a remark about Japanese cheese on my itty bitty food-related vanity blog, (I hadn't noticed cheese when I lived there but I was a kid then and I didn't care plus the Commissary had it, the government kind which I didn't like) and a reader kindly corrects me and thoroughly provided the history of Japanese cheese, in Japanese. 

Which, if you are interested,  turns out to be:

Japanese people were eating from the Asuka period

It is the beginning of Kotokuten'no era, descendants of naturalized people of Baekje from (stupid), dairy products such as Su and dairy milk and to have been presented to the Imperial Family by Ina good (Zen) to 645 years in Japan. It is said that this Su is equivalent to a kind of cheese, but as that was hardened by boiling down the milk and manufacturing method of difference now. At the time of Emperor Daigo, and gave a "tribute Su Yi" which contribute go to the Emperor to make the Su to command the countries. Emperor Daigo is said in the understanding of the dairy, and was the name of the Emperor words related to milk the "Daigo" in this way. Then, power is transferred to the As samurai, "Yi Su contribution" is also no longer made.

The imported white cow head 3 in the Edo period

Obtain a white cow head 3 from India is recommended in Dutch, 8 Shogun Yoshimune is now to produce "white Gyuraku" from the milk. The "white Gyuraku", and as it rounded the dumplings and dried milk boiled down, there is also a theory that butter, but it is said to be close to the cheese more. At the time of 11 generations Ienari 60 years later, cattle became the head 70.

The prototype first cheese of Japan 1875

It is the first time in the prototype test site development agency of Hokkaido in 1875, modern European-type cheese was made in the Trappist monastery of Hakodate from around Meiji 33. However, production of cheese is very small, most were imported early Showa. It came to be made in earnest, Hokkaido made dairy sales association Federation of from making a specialty cheese factory shoals of Hokkaido, is that of 1932.

Consumption jumped from the second half of 1955

Consumption was growing rapidly, it is from the second half of 1955 that Western-style and living standards of the diet is improved. Consumption of natural cheese spread of pizza around 1975, such as the boom of cheese cake of 55 around Showa spreads, on behalf of the process cheese were many traditional, consumption of natural cheese is now many in 1988. Cheese is established in the diet at present, those who enjoy the natural flavor of the cheese has been increasing.

Asuka period, per Wikipedia always so reliable,  years 538-710 or 592-645,  pick one.