A konbini (a Japanese convenience store) is nothing like the corner stores you’re used to. These stores serve up full meals, ...

Step within it and you are reborn.” Over a long kaiseki dinner of traditional Japanese food served in tiny crockery, Shinji talks through the history of his family’s 120-year-old ryokan.

The Japanese Cuisine and Dietary Culture Human Resource Development Program, organized by the Japanese non-profit ...

Sake. Japanese food. It sounds pretty obvious but not if you’re Naoto Mizuno, president of the much-lauded Kokuryu brand of ...

Japan plans to honor top chefs and other food experts with outstanding skills ... The designation will be finalized by the minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology.

“I would like guests to feel the roots of Japanese food culture through my own unique expression, not in the formal representation Japanese kaiseki dishes,” he adds. The very next ...

It is hoped that they will put their knowledge of Japanese food culture and skills in Japanese cuisine to good use in their home countries. This program is held every year with the support of the ...