Do you Kyoto?

Most countries in the world pride themselves on their quisine:
In France and Italy food is a quasi-religion.
British food is pretty decent also, even if our national dish is chicken tikka masala.
The Americans are quite proud of their meatloafs (meatloaves?), their pumpkin pies and so on. And everybody loves chinese food.
But in Japan - I think they must hate themselves. I know JETs who rave about Japanese food like they're lives had been meaningless untill now, but I find it quite , well, nasty. Fish is everywhere, even in ice cream. Mush is also everywhere, preferably soaked in some sort of fish broth. I live for indian restaurants and the foreign food shop. Sorry, but I do.