essential element for Japanese kitchen

These are typical Japanese kitchens.

  

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Don't you thing there are something different under stoves in every picture? 

Yes! This drawer! Almost every kitchen now and then has this drawere under the stove!! 

 

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But what's for? Actually, this drawer is a stove for fish!!

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Japanese people eat fish very often.So we use it almost everyday!

 P.S. The play equipment for kids also has fish grill!! (http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/grain/3691113.html)