Conversions

Japanese use the metric system and their own brand of cup size, called go (which I used to think was only used to measure rice). This is all a pain when trying to write for a varied, international audience.

Thankfully, the spoons are internationally the same. What a coincidence! Who would have thought that Oda Nobunaga ate with the same size spoons as Shakespeare? For your reference, 1 tablespoon is 15 ml and 1 teaspoon is 5 ml.

Here, however, are basic metric-US conversions and Japanese-US cup conversions. These are by no means exact! Numbers are rounded, but really awfully close.

(Note: I'll add to this as measuring difficulties come up.)

Japanese	metric	US
Volume:
1 go (Japanese cup)	200 ml (milliliters)	7/8 cups
	240 ml	1 cup
	100 ml	1/2 cup
	1 liter	1/4 gallon
Temperature:
	0 Celcius	32 Farenheit
	100 C	212 F
	190 C	375 F