Increase of the Japanese restaurant in the world

According to the announcement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japanese restaurants are approximately 88 000 outlets all over the world at the time of the July 2015.
As compared to January 2013, it seems to 1.6 times.
The Japanese restaurant, not only traditional food, also contains beef bowl shops and modern meal shop.
The number of stores are often the most in China, then America.
The past few years, the increase is significant region is the Middle East and Oceania.
The reason for the recent worldwide increase, in addition to that the health of the Japanese food is supported, is that Japanese food has been registered as a World Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO in 2013.
I love Sushi and beaf bowl.
When you travel to Japan, please by all means enjoy the new and old of Japanese food ^_^！