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SUKIYA

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2022
Worker at Japanese fast-food chain Sukiya dies while working alone
The woman in her 50s was working an early morning shift in January at a Nagoya outlet and her situation was not discovered until her colleague arrived at around 9 a.m.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2019
Sukiya to keep price of regular beef-on-rice bowls the same after tax hike, eat-in or takeout
Zensho Holdings Co. said Tuesday it will not change the tax-included price of its mainstay regular gyūdon beef-on-rice bowls at its Sukiya restaurants after a consumption tax hike.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 24, 2017
What will we eat when all the food runs out?
Last week, the Yukan Fuji (June 20) reported that 20 outlets in the Kappa Sushi conveyor belt sushi chain in east and west Japan are promoting an all-you-can-eat special, with patrons from middle-school age to 64 years charged ¥1,706 (boys and men) or ¥1,490 (girls and women). Seniors over 65 can partake in the same gargantuan feast for just ¥1,058.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EARLY START
Aug 5, 2016
Start your morning with a serving of tradition at these breakfast joints
The Japanese breakfast provides a healthy start to the day. It's rich in vegetables — from both land and sea — often includes fermented foods such as miso soup and pickles, and is rounded out with rice and grilled seafood. Though, it hasn't always been this way.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2014
Exploited working students starting to fight 'burakku arubaito' system
The 22-year-old university student was in his fifth day working part time at a Sukiya beef bowl outlet in Tokyo when his boss suddenly told him to run the shop from midnight to 9 a.m. all by himself.
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 2014
The high cost of cheap labor
The recent revelation that excessively long hours were imposed on workers at Sukiya should not be dismissed as an isolated case limited to the popular beef-bowl chain.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
May 7, 2014
Japanese firms have much to lose in battles over bogus outsourcing
The biggest reason companies sign outsourcing contracts with regular workers is to avoid all the obligations employers have to regular employees according to labor law.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 28, 2014
No sacred cows in Japan's beef bowl war
Who will triumph in the u201cgyudon (beef bowl) waru201d and what started in all? Read all about it in this week's FYI.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Feb 26, 2013
Carpenter Eiichiro Amakasu
Eiichiro Amakasu, 70, is a carpenter who designs and builds traditional Japanese homes and their surrounding gardens. He is an expert of sukiya, a residential architectural style that is typically associated with Japanese tea houses.

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