Food & Drink– category –

Walk into a Japanese electronics store and head for the rice cooker aisle, and you'll find machines ranging from simple, inexpensive models to premium cookers costing tens of thousands of yen — some comfortably above ¥100,000. Read the s...

You sit down at a Japanese bar-restaurant. Before you have ordered anything, a small dish appears on your table — a few pieces of tofu, some pickled vegetables, a tiny portion of something you cannot immediately identify. You did not ask...