VOI ID
 
McDonald's fast food chain in Japan plans to stop using work straws around 3,000 outlets across Japan, responding to customer dissatisfaction with the drinking experience.
McDonald's will stop using the paper straw, which was introduced in 2022, by starting using a new design of drink ca...

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NIPPON
 
Japan's Fiscal System Council, which advises the finance minister, proposed at a subcommittee meeting on Friday that the government considers sales of minimum access rice for staple food as long as they do not affect markets.
Currently, the Japanese government sells most such rice at low...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Tokyo will begin producing locally farmed caviar on Kozushima Island amid the decline in the number of spiny lobsters.
The Tokyo metropolitan government aims to cultivate sterlet sturgeon, which produces roe used to make caviar, creating a new income source for local fishermen. The c...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japan's 2025 staple rice harvest is forecast to reach a nine-year high of 7.48 million tons, up 10% from the previous year, the agriculture ministry has said.
The harvest amount is expected to exceed 7 million tons for the first time since 2022, the ministry added Friday.
This year'...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Chestnuts peek out from nests of spiky burs on Sunday in Obuse, Nagano Prefecture. Harvest season for the town’s famed chestnuts is now at its peak.
This orchard, called Marron-zine Obuse, consists of 26 plots in which roughly 600 chestnut trees in about 10 varieties are cultivated. ...

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BBC
 
Japan is facing a shortage of Asahi products, including beer and bottled tea, as the drinks giant grapples with the impact of a major cyber-attack that has affected its operations in the country.
Most of the Asahi Group's factories in Japan have been at a standstill since Monday, after the ...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Krispy Kreme is world-famous for its original glazed doughnuts, but in Japan, where competition for doughnuts is fierce, the chain is consistently compelled to up its game with new limited-edition releases, and its latest is one of the best we’ve seen.
Called the Krispy Kreme Premiu...

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NHK
 
Japan's agriculture minister says if his ministry's projections hold true, a substantial amount of new rice will enter the market, leading to stable retail prices.
Koizumi Shinjiro made the remark in an NHK debate program on Sunday.
The agriculture ministry announced on Friday that as of Au...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan faces its hottest summer in history, a sharp decline in the catch of sea urchin in the country's north has made the spiny delicacy further out of reach for many consumers already strained by high food costs.
On Hokkaido's Rishiri Island, restaurants offer a rice bowl with 100 ...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's farm minister on Monday urged the South Korean foreign minister to scrap restrictions on Japanese seafood imports imposed after the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, held talks with S...

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