Loading

Search

:

Japan Redefining Convenience Store Experience From Snacks To Style

  • Category:Gourmet
KYODO NEWS
 
Convenience stores, often referred to as "conbini" in Japan, have increasingly become a must-visit for tourists, offering a wide range of foods often heralded as higher quality than those found in visitors' home countries.
But the experience is now extending beyond fried chicken to f...

More

Nissin Warned For Pressuring Retailers To Raise Prices Of 5 Products

  • Category:Gourmet
JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has issued a warning to Osaka-based food giant Nissin Food Products for pressuring supermarkets and drugstores to raise retail prices of five of its main products.
The Fair Trade Commission issued the warning after it learned that Nissin had forced the ...

More

Rice Price Jumps At Japan Supermarkets Amid Heat Damage, Tourism Boom

  • Category:Gourmet
JAPAN TODAY
 
The average price of rice has surged at supermarkets in Japan, data from the private and public sectors showed Wednesday, with pundits attributing it to a tight supply as a result of last summer's high temperatures and high demand from booming inbound tourism.
According to True Data...

More

Orange Juice Crisis ’24 – Japan’s OJ Supplies Drying Up

  • Category:Gourmet
JAPAN TODAY
 
Despite Japan’s well-deserved reputation a wonderland of delicious pleasures for the palate, the country isn’t immune to food/beverage crises.
We’re only two years out from the potato shortage of 2022, when some fast food chains in Japan had to restrict French fry sales or replace t...

More

Japan Diversifying Seafood Export Destinations After China Ban

  • Category:Gourmet
KYODO NEWS
 
Faced with China's ban on Japanese marine product imports, sparked by the release of treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan's fisheries industry has been casting a wider net, seeking new export destinations to reduce its dependency on the world's second-larges...

More

Suntory Announces Massive Price Spike For Its Whisky, Some Types More Than Double In Price

  • Category:Gourmet
JAPAN TODAY
 
After decades of next to no inflation, Japan has been seeing rapid consumer price increases over the past two years. At the same time, regular cost-of-living wage increases have yet to become a standard practice among Japanese employers.
It’s enough to make one want a drink, but, un...

More

Demand for 2024 Rice Projected to Hit Record Low in Japan

  • Category:Gourmet
NIPPON.COM
 
Demand for rice to be harvested in 2024 for consumption as staple food in Japan is estimated hit a record low of 6.71 million tons, the agriculture ministry said Thursday.
Rice demand will decline for the 11th straight year, according to the estimate presented to the day’s meeting of...

More

Nisshin Oillio to Raise Prices of Products Including Sesame Oil; Causes Include Political Unrest in Africa, High Import Prices

  • Category:Gourmet
JAPAN NEWS
 
The Nisshin Oillio Group, Ltd. announced Thursday that it will raise the prices of 13 products for home use, including “Nisshin Healthy Goma Koyu” sesame oil. Nine products for commercial use will also see price increases.
Price increases range from 4-26%. These new prices will be in...

More

Experimental Drone Delivery of Yoshinoya’s Gyudon Conducted in Ishikawa Pref.; ‘As Good as Eating at the Restaurant’

  • Category:Gourmet
JAPAN NEWS
 
A demonstration experiment of using a drone to deliver Gyudon beef bowls from a Yoshinoya restaurant was conducted in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture.
It was the first time a drone delivery experiment was conducted from a Yoshinoya parking lot. Yamanashi Prefecture-based Next Delivery, ...

More

Japan Brewer Kirin Buys Australia Vitamin Giant Blackmores

  • Category:Gourmet
BBC
 
Japanese brewer Kirin has agreed to buy Australian vitamins maker Blackmores for A$1.88bn ($1.24bn; £999.4m).
The move comes as Kirin expands into healthcare in the face of shrinking beer sales in its home country and increasing regulation of alcohol.
"The acquisition of Blackmores is highl...

More