When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an American variety. The price of the ...

Pro tip: Pairing ramen with cocktails (the best bars, below) is one of the best ways to experience Tokyo’s food scene. Kikanbo & Bar Libre. Ramen Nagi & Golden Gai. Afuri & Bar Trench. Fuunji & Bar ...

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A Japanese man concealed his father’s body in a wardrobe at home for two years after the elder’s death, unwilling to bear the ...

Zheng is one of the few women leading her own omakase counter. In Japan — which is home to over 30,000 sushi restaurants — ...

Nobuhiko Suzuki hid his father's body in a wardrobe for two years to avoid funeral costs after his death in January 2023.

Competitive eater with millions of followers has downed 25kg of king crabs in single sitting, eaten 35 burgers and 30 chicken ...

A man hid his father’s body in a wardrobe for two years. The discovery was made after his restaurant closed, leading to an ...

Travelling to Japan was our dream family holiday for over a decade and with three 20-plus-year-olds and two fifty-plus-year-olds there was a great deal of ...

On all these counts, Musashino Udon Kan serves very good noodles indeed.The humble shop opened in September in ever-improving Bentleigh. There are window benches to survey streetlife, shelves of ...

This moody wood-paneled bar near Yotsuya Station in Shunjuku has been a decidedly serious place to listen to jazz since 1967.