Japanese food

Beyond cooking skills: How restaurants in Singapore are fighting to survive

How real is the threat of a ‘neo-militarist’ Japan?

Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force aboard a Mogami-class stealth frigate May 21, 2026.

Japan’s Fujiya to reduce packaging colours for about 10 products, including Country Ma’am cookies

The packaging for Country Ma'am cookies will change to a primarily white, black and red design.

How curry shops got caught in Japan’s immigration crackdown

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government is trying to deliver on her promise to more strictly regulate immigration and tourism.

$3.90 yakitori and viral cheesecakes: Five new Japanese food brands in Singapore

cljapan30 - All the food on Torikizoku's menu is priced at $3.90.
Source: Torikizoku

Japan firm begins world’s first sales of fully farmed eels

Japan's farm ministry plans to shift all eels distributed in Japan to those raised from artificially hatched juveniles amid global concern over the sustainability of eel populations.

Premium Hokkaido melons fetch record $46,600 at season’s first auction

The two melons reached a record-high price of 5.8 million yen.

Japan to sell eels bred in captivity in ‘world first’

Eel is eaten worldwide, but is particularly popular in Japan, where it is traditionally served grilled and covered in a sticky-sweet sauce.

Japan restaurants hit by visa pause for high-demand foreign workers

The number of foreign workers with Type I status in the food service industry reached roughly 46,000 by the end of February.

Japan’s cheap curry lunch faces an impossible trinity

This isn’t Japanese curry rice but another variation, one that, like its British equivalent, has been entirely adapted to the local market.

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