Proper color coding adds depth to this colorful technical tool, which dates back to 18th-century Japanese rice traders. Traditionally, candlesticks are best used on a daily basis, so that each ...

Japan’s leading business lobby called for renewed government efforts to promote anime, manga and games as a pillar to spearhead the nation’s economic growth. The April 7 proposal by Keidanren ...

Exports of rice from Taiwan to Japan have been increasing in the past few years, and this year it would supply the Japan Self-Defense Forces for the first time, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Hu ...

Rice is an essential food item in daily Japanese diet.Representative Image South Korea has long been a magnet for travellers drawn by its dynamic culture, food, and K-pop phenomenon. However, a new ...

TOKYO -- Japan's private sector is expected to import roughly 20 times more rice in fiscal 2025 than the year before, as a historic surge in the price of the staple grain leads restaurants and ...

Japanese anime enthusiasts have chosen their top isekai anime. Minna no Ranking revealed the list after a poll with over 47,000 votes. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime secured the first ...

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An increasing number of Japanese traveling abroad are bringing rice back home recently amid soaring prices of the staple food in the country. Plant quarantine officials are calling on people to be ...

On Thursday, April 24, 2025, the 34th Japan Movie Critics Awards announced that the Look Back anime movie based on Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot manga won the Best Animation of ...

domestic stockpiles dwindle and prices soar Japan is importing rice from South Korea for the first time in over 25 years, highlighting a critical challenge for its manufacturing supply chains as ...

Concretely, it is said imports will be expanded through “minimum-access rice,” or Japan’s quota for rice that can be imported without a tariff. The government has set an annual quota of ...