Food Science Japan

This post certainly has nothing to do with science. A number of years ago (7 or more), the urban myth spread in Japan that you could keep a...

Burger King was in Japan from 1996 to 2001, but reportedly could not compete with McDonald's in a price war. I also heard at the time t...

The current price for 350 ml cans of non-alcoholic drinks is 120 yen, but you can find discount outlets and vending machines if you keep yo...

This is a picture of a typical "muto" (or zero sugar, 無糖) black coffee - Pokka brand Biz Time Cafe Black. On such products there i...

One very good source of information on Japanese trends and products is Nikkei Trendy (Japanese). This week there is a survey on canned cof...

There is an important posting on the Junkfood Science blog concerning hyponatremic seizures resulting from infants being given water to dri...

There is an interesting paper in Nutrition Research " Acidic Beverages Increase the Risk of in vitro Tooth Erosion ". A group at ...

As of September last year, the drunk driving laws in Japan became much stricter, with very little tolerance at all. A blood alcohol level as...

Bulgarian Sumo wrestler Kotooshu became the first European to win a major sumo tournament or basho. It was big news here in Japan and good n...

There was a very interesting article in the 2008.5.21 issue of Nikkei Shimbun (Japanese edition). It lists the tariffs on the importation of...