Japanese Polled
| Conservation status | FAO (2007): critical |
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| Country of origin | Japan |
| Distribution | Yamaguchi Prefecture |
| Use | beef |
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| Coat | black |
| Horn status | polled (hornless) in both sexes |
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The Japanese Polled (Japanese: 無角和種, Mukaku Washu) is a critically-endangered breed of small Japanese beef cattle. It is one of six native Japanese cattle breeds, and one of the four Japanese breeds known as wagyū, the others being the Japanese Black, the Japanese Brown and the Japanese Shorthorn.: 420
All wagyū cattle derive from cross-breeding in the early twentieth century of native Japanese cattle with imported stock, mostly from Europe.: 5 In the case of the Japanese Polled, the principal foreign influence was from the Scottish Aberdeen Angus breed.