This is so true Japan is sticking to their seasonal foods as part of their tradition and we used to have this as well. There is no excusable reason to fly food around the world IMO.
I am sure they would prefer to pay less than minimum wage etc to "that lot" rather than a decent wage to UK workers for a decent wage that have even done this job as a summer job traditionally in places like France. But we can just label all UK as lazy and cant do a job that we have done for...