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LUNCH

Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2018
Japan looks to lower teachers' workloads by having municipalities collect fees for student lunches
In a bid to lower teachers' workloads, the education ministry will compile guidelines by the end of next March on how to reduce their burden with regards to the collection and management of school lunch fees, informed sources have said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Jul 7, 2018
Dai's Deli: A long wait justified by classic sandwiches
Dai's sandwich deli and cafe has gourmet sandwiches, designed to please both eye and stomach.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 19, 2018
Losing one's lunch
'Do you remember what your mother used to put in your bento for lunch at elementary school?'
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
May 12, 2018
By Twotone: Snap-friendly cafe offers wholesome lunch sets
By Twotone is serving up affordable lunch sets in a chic, minimalist cafe space.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 29, 2017
Tokyo's hotel bars a cut above when it comes to lunch
Some bars, it turns out, have split personalities. In the evening they are a place to relax with a drink and chat with friends. But a few transform in the day, taking on new atmospheres and giving entirely different impressions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 12, 2016
School lunches reveal cultural differences
Local governments are being penny wise and pound foolish when they reduce the quality of school lunches.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Aug 12, 2016
Grill Aoi serves up the most Japanese Western food in its Little Rich Lunch
The Japanese guriru ("grill" meaning a restaurant, not a cooking tool) is an interesting mix of new, borrowed and adapted ideas. Grill Aoi, a family-owned diner tucked away on a quiet side street between Gojo and Shijo, has no shortage of such ideas.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2016
Taiwan, city of Gotemba sign banana deal
Taiwan's Council of Agriculture and Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, have signed a letter of intent to cooperate on the city's school lunch program in a new cooperation model meant to strengthen ties between the two sides.
JAPAN
May 15, 2015
Chiba food distributor halted after cigarette butt, filter turn up in school lunch
The Chiba Municipal Board of Education said a cigarette butt turned up in rice served for lunch Monday at a public elementary school in Inage Ward.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 9, 2015
Let's do lunch
I can't talk at the moment; I'm on a train. I can call you in two minutes though. Is it important?
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Apr 11, 2015
Blowing one's lunch
You know, I think ebi (prawns) have gotten bigger over the past 20 years.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Jan 27, 2015
Flavor without the fireworks at Osaka's Ajikitcho
Rene Redzepi, currently Denmark's second most famous export — behind Lego but ahead of Carlsberg — in an interview with Japan Times food columnist Robbie Swinnerton paid high compliments to the wait staff in Japan calling them "some of the best on Earth."
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Dec 24, 2014
Early morning sushi in Osaka that's a cut above the rest
If someone were to ask me where the best place in Osaka to go for sushi at 5 a.m. is, I would answer — immediately and unequivocally — that it's Endo's. Of course, it might also be the only place open at such an ungodly hour, owing to its location at the Osaka central market.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE PERSISTENT VEGETARIAN
Dec 24, 2014
Le Pain Quotidien serves up a hearty, organic vegetarian lunch
I try not to over-associate being vegetarian with being somehow fancy or trendy — organic-diet this or macrobiotic that. While I prefer to think of it as a rather everyday lifestyle, the oshare (hip) association in Japan runs strong.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2014
Market's 'bento' leave 33 sick in Aichi
Thirty-three people showed symptoms of food poisoning after eating boxed lunches made at a supermarket in Seto, Aichi Prefecture, the prefectural government said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2013
IT startup barters its way into niche
At around noon on a recent weekday, the Roppongi branch of Shamrock by Abbot Choice, a Tokyo-based Irish-style pub chain, had a bustling lunchtime crowd.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 31, 2013
Schools have knack for healthy meals
In Japan, school lunch means a regular meal, not one that harms your health. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen. There's no mystery behind the meat. From time to time, parents even call up with an unusual question: Can they get the recipes?
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 20, 2012
It all stacks up: tumbler bento
The tumbler bento turns the lunch box into a lunch cup.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 26, 2012
How do you say 'super-size' in Japanese?
Still believe that Japanese food is healthy?
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 27, 2009
No brown bagging it for students
Safe, healthy, tasty. That's the goal of "kyushoku" (school lunches) that are distributed nationwide.

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