OSAKA (Kyodo) With Japanese cuisine now long established on the world's culinary scene, more people outside Japan are developing a taste for one particular type of Japanese food — noodles.
Exports of noodles have been on the increase for the past several years. With Japanese food often associated with safety and quality, it is growing popular in other parts of Asia after it first caught on in major industrialized countries, including the United States.
Exports from the greater Osaka region in particular account for nearly half of the Japanese noodles shipped abroad.