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RESTAURANTS

Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 28, 2017
Tomita Shuzo: Storied sake on a Shiga street that time forgot
As well as being one of the oldest sake breweries in Japan, the sake here is also some of the nation's finest.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 28, 2017
Top Philippines chef Margarita Fores chows down like a local in Tokyo
Margarita Fores was recently in Japan to give Tokyoites a taste of her Italian-inflected Philippine cuisine.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Gourmet Trails
Oct 21, 2017
Six temples, 60 km and countless bowls of Sanuki udon in Kagawa
For foodies, Kagawa can mean just one thing: the prefecture's signature noodles.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Oct 21, 2017
Sato no Ie Hanase: Kyoto-level kaiseki for all seasons
At Sato no Ie Hanase, Kyoto's loss is most definitely Osaka's gain.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Oct 21, 2017
Umaiya: Anything you like, as long as it's takoyaki sans mayo
Umaiya is old-school. There are no innovations here, and furthermore there's no mayonnaise, so don't bother asking for it.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2017
Internet bad boy Takafumi Horie and Wagyumafia bet the farm on intensely marbled steaks
Corporate enfant terrible, Takafumi Horie, built one of Japan's most successful internet businesses, stood for the Diet, went to prison and started a space company that aims to put the country's first privately funded rocket into orbit. Now he has a new frontier: cattle.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Oct 16, 2017
Ippudo ramen chain credits its global success to localized tastes
Toshiyuki Kiyomiya likes to compare ramen to a carefully arranged universe in a bowl.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Restaurant Do's and Don'ts
Sep 30, 2017
The do's and don'ts of opening a restaurant or bar in Japan
If you've lived and worked in Japan for any length of time, there's a chance you've at least daydreamed about how great it would be to run your own restaurant or bar.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2017
Pop-up Tokyo restaurant highlights dementia awareness
Diners have no complaints about the service at a pop-up restaurant in central Tokyo where the 17 waiters and waitresses all suffer from dementia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 5, 2017
Ajinomoto to open new gyoza restaurant with overseas visitors in mind
Ajinomoto Frozen Foods Co. is showing off a new gyoza pot sticker restaurant called Gyoza It, which it is targeting at overseas visitors to Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 10, 2017
When it comes to restaurants, people steal the darndest things
Since time immemorial, silverware has found a way to walk out of dining rooms. But the golden age of modern restaurant theft occurred in the early 2000s.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Apr 8, 2017
Burlesque: Hamburgers and haircuts
Am I alone in thinking that some of the best-looking restaurants in Japan turn out to be hair salons?
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Mar 5, 2017
What's a visitor with a food allergy to do in Japan?
A selection of foreign nationals coping with food allergies in Japan offer tips for visitors to Japan facing the same challenges.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 2, 2017
Health ministry dilutes plan to ban indoor smoking as restaurant industry and LDP resist
Bowing to pressure from the restaurant industry and the Liberal Democratic Party, the health ministry waters down its indoor smoking ban proposal to exempt small bars.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Feb 13, 2017
Let's discuss bans on smoking
The health ministry is considering a legal revision banning smoking in public areas to help bring Japan's battle against secondhand smoke in line with the global standard ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2017
Health ministry gears up for possible ban on smoking in public areas
The health ministry is considering a legal revision to ban smoking in public areas to help bring the nation's policy on secondhand smoke in line with global standards ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 9, 2016
How Michelin's stardust has changed Tokyo
It has become one of Tokyo's gastronomic rites of autumn. Just as sure as the leaves on the city's many ginkgo trees turn gold and scatter across pavements, the latest Michelin Guide Tokyo hits the stores each year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2016
Trip to Tokyo? Ex-Goldman trader sells secret, top dining access
Are you a business traveler who wants to jump to the front of the waiting list for Tokyo's most exclusive restaurants? Check out this former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trader's new venture.
JAPAN
Nov 29, 2016
Three-star restaurants extend streak in new edition of Tokyo Michelin guide
The selection of restaurants and hotels to be listed in Michelin Guide Tokyo 2017 was announced online Tuesday, including four restaurants that have received a three-star rating for 10 years running.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 27, 2016
Haute cuisine? Santa serves up sleigh-borne dinner in the sky
Not waiting at home for Santa Claus, gourmets in Brussels are flying off aboard his sleigh to dine with him above the city's rooftops and twinkling Christmas lights.

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