Did Japanese people eat pickled fish eyes? In the episode Outpost of the "Private Snafu" WWII propaganda series, Snafu encounters a can of pickled fish eyes with rice from the Imperial Japanese Navy. (Transcript, video link (Warning: content is sexist and anti-Japanese)) Did Japanese people eat pickled fish eyes? < mentions eating fish eye (not necessarily pickled) in Nagoya, and a comment on a blog post has someone mentioning they ate pickled fish eyes in Tokyo. But the small number of google hits for "pickled fish eyes" I'm getting makes me somewhat doubtful.

The 1939 article The Caloric Measure of Man in _The Cavalry Journal_ July/August 1939 says:

> The Japanese soldier lives on a ration of fish eyes and rice.

A National Geographic article says:

> The ship served only Japanese food. You might weary of raw fish, **pickled fish eyes** , octopus tentacles, seaweed, and bean curd.