Major department store chains Takashimaya Co. and Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores Co. separately said Tuesday that some of their restaurants and stores misrepresented items on their menus, becoming the latest in a string of companies to own up to food fraud.
Takashimaya said the misrepresentations involved 62 menu items at five of its department stores and a shopping center, including those in Tokyo's Nihonbashi and Shinjuku districts, Yokohama, and the city of Okayama.
Mislabeled items included black tiger shrimp passed off as Japanese "kuruma" shrimp and "steak" that was actually processed meat with beef fat added.