THE GUARDIAN
 
Signature cuisine is at the centre of a police investigation after customers at revolving sushi restaurants posted video clips of themselves meddling with dishes
There are breaches of etiquette – drenching your rice in soy sauce, for one – and then there are heinous acts of “sushi ...

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CNN
 
Smoke began to drift out of a box as the winner of Japan's "dish of the year" was revealed.
But it wasn't a beautifully plated mackerel or an immaculate dessert that took top honors. Instead, the hosts unveiled a variety of frozen meats and pizzas -- still in their air-tight bags.
Every yea...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan has a lot of ice cream flavors that, if you’re not familiar with the local cuisine, might be surprising when you first encounter them.
Matcha/green tea is the most famous, but you can find sakura ice cream, sometimes with actual cherry blossoms mixed in, as well as azuki (swee...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japanese Twitter user ぼく Boku (@boku_5656) is a "culinary researcher" who posts recipes with cute illustrations on their account.
You may have already heard about incredibly soft and fluffy Japanese pancakes, but the recipe that Boku recently introduced has an added advantage: it'...

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SORA NEWS
 
Sip some sustainable sake soon.
With a lot of focus being put on products that are sustainable and ethical, the Japanese alcohol known as nihonshu in Japan, or just sake abroad, really has a lot going for it.
For centuries, it has been an all-natural, additive-free, and vegan alcoholi...

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SORA NEWS
 
Introducing Japan to a new world of fruit flavour.
Japan is a country with a myriad of regions, and with that comes a myriad of local specialties and flavours. Swiss chocolatier Lindt is now bringing one of those local specialties to our attention with their latest limited-time releas...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Halloween may be in October, but when August rolls around in Japan, it's a time of ghosts. Every August (the 12th this year), Japan observes Obon -- a holiday festival to honor the spirits of departed ancestors, who are said to enter the realm of the living and visit their families ...

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SORA NEWS
 
Colourless beverage contains special ingredients to enhance the flavour of Japan’s “national dish”.
Pepsi has proved time and time again it isn’t afraid of experimenting with new releases to suit the tastes of the local market in Japan. So far, they’ve given us special flavours like s...

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NHK
 
A major Japanese chocolate maker is shifting its focus towards sustainable sweets. Fuji Oil says it has started shipping products in Japan this month that are sustainably and ethically sourced.
The world's third largest industrial chocolate maker will boost its procurement of cacao beans fr...

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SORA NEWS
 
Midori in more ways than one.
There’s a phrase in Japanese, yori dori midori, which describes a happy situation where you’ve got your pick from a number of attractive options.
By coincidence, midori is also how you say “green” in Japanese, and so Starbucks Japan is combining the two p...

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