Food Science Japan

There is a very interesting series on NPR, which is also being podcast , called "The DNA Files". The whole series is interesting, ...

Anyone with kids in Japan knows about Anpanman, the young children's cartoon series where all the characters are different food items. ...

Japan Pharmacology and Therapeutics (薬理と治療) is an interesting scientific publication to keep an eye on, because data from scientific trials ...

Rakuten announced that it is going to start next day deliveries of perishables. In the future it plans to move to same day deliveries. Raku...

There is a news item that Taisho Pharmaceutical is going to start selling a nonprescription anti-smoking patch . In the past smoking patches...

Food prices sure have been going up rapidly and the pinch is on everyone except farmers. At a time like this it is good to put things in per...

Here is an article from the International Herald Tribune which is pretty much right on the money from my experience. Starting last year, wa...

I have mentioned the fact that restaurants and food manufacturers are trying to cut down on ingredient costs by reducing the size of offerin...

Kracie is selling gum aimed at older men who don't want to smell like older men. I looked up the main ingredient, geraniol , and it is...

This is a picture from the same store as shown in yesterday's post. Although not readable from this picture, this stand is displaying 2...