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CHICKEN 2

Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KONBINI WATCH
Apr 22, 2017
Yuzu Kosho Chicken flavor chips: A tasty boon amid the potato shortage
Japan is experiencing a potato shortage. Caused by typhoons that hit Hokkaido last summer, the result is that potato chips have become scarce across the country. Well, at least some varieties. Though a handful of styles and flavors remain relatively plentiful, other fan favorites have vanished from shelves. If you have a spare packet of Pizza Potato chips handy, you might be able to make some scratch online.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Apr 8, 2017
Queen of Chickens: Great chicken in close quarters
Chicken is king at Queen of Chickens, and it comes cooked every which way you can think of, but most notably it's the rotisserie chicken — skewered on a spit and slow roasted — that brings people in.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 3, 2017
Yakitori Imai: A new grill pairs tradition with ambience
What better way to mark the start of this new lunar year than with yakitori? It's the Year of the Fire Rooster, so that calls for some good skewers — prime jidori chicken, of course, carefully prepared over proper charcoal. At Yakitori Imai that's exactly what you get, in the most stylish of settings.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KONBINI WATCH
Jun 10, 2016
Lawson celebrates 30 years of Kara-age Kun with a special yuzu flavor
Deep-fried kara-age chicken has been a much-loved staple at convenience stores in Japan for decades. One of the longest-running varieties is Lawson's Kara-age Kun, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 20, 2016
Bump of Chicken keeps things nice on 'Butterflies'
Bump of Chicken "Butterflies" (Toy's Factory)
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KONBINI WATCH
Apr 24, 2015
FamilyMart's nuggets may be a gamechanger in the convenience store fried-chicken war
Nuggets have long been an afterthought in the greasy trenches of Japan's convenience-store fried-chicken battles. "Nugget" options in the past have resembled sad, microwave-ready snacks pulled from the freezer.
BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2015
Hold the Chicken McNuggets: Piece of rubber found in McDonald's serving in Okayama
A small rubber fragment was found in a chicken nugget at a McDonald's outlet in Okayama Prefecture last October, a public relations official of McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) revealed Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / NAGOYA RESTAURANTS
Oct 28, 2014
Miyakagi: Head upstairs for a 'nabe' hot pot party
Having opened in Meiji 32 (1899), and serving its signature yakitori (grilled chicken), unagi (eel) and nabe (hot pot) for over 110 years, Miyakagi is one of Nagoya's longest-running restaurants.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / NAGOYA RESTAURANTS
Oct 28, 2014
Kinboshi: Cochin chicken doesn't have to be expensive
Kobe has its beef, Oma has its tuna and Nagoya has its chicken. Famous nationwide as some of the best poultry available in Japan, Cochin chicken is available at select stores throughout Nagoya at a premium price. One such restaurant that has a regular supply is the popular local yakitori (grilled chicken) chain Kinboshi.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 2, 2014
Toriki: Yakitori made with care but no frills
Yakitori is comfort food. No matter how high-end or low-rent the location, it's all about the simple pleasures of chewing on grilled chicken and kicking back with a drink or a few. That's the tried-and-true formula at Toriki.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 10, 2014
Unclear on the concept
Woman #1: Can you speak English?
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 26, 2014
Chinese who chicken out over duck blood
No matter how weird or disgusting the food scandal in rural China, it'll almost certainly happen again if profitable. The latest involves a 'mom and pop' duck blood counterfeiting ring.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 17, 2014
Kumamoto bird flu strain ID'd as H5N8, new to Japan
The avian influenza found in chickens in Kumamoto has been identified as the first case of the H5N8 strain in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2014
112,000 chickens culled at Kumamoto Farms in bid to curb bird flu outbreak
Racing to contain an avian flu outbreak, about 400 workers culled 112,000 birds at two Kumamoto chicken farms from Sunday night through Monday.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Mar 12, 2014
Bump of Chicken x Hatsune Miku, plus two other 'must-see' J-pop music videos
Besides news of a Bump of Chicken and Hatsune Miku collaboration, check out the latest from Babymetal and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jan 4, 2014
Chicken little
Customer: Have you got any chicken?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Dec 24, 2013
Familiar obstacles stymie change in domestic music industry
While the Japanese music industry ended last year on a promise of change, 2013 has highlighted a few of the ingrained practices that are going to be a little bit more difficult to dislodge.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2013
Pizza Hut incensed by worker's dough-faced Twitter stunt
A part-time worker at a Pizza Hut outlet in Tokyo uploaded a photo of himself on Twitter with pizza dough plastered all over his face in May, Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd., which owns the pizza delivery chain, has revealed.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 1, 2013
Marusen Seimen: Chicken ramen to bowl you over
It's summer: You're not supposed to have an appetite. All you feel like is eating noodles? Welcome to the club. Here's one place where I've been finding nourishment in this most difficult of seasons.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2013
Tastes like chicken? New 'unagi' product uses fowl in place of eel
If your "unagi" (grilled eel) dish tastes eerily similar to chicken this summer, that may be because it is.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Man, 28, arrested in Okinawa over burned bodies found in Tochigi
Hikaru Sasaki enters the Metropolitan Police Department's Osaki police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Monday after being arrested on suspicion of disposing of two bodies found in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, earlier this month.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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