Food Science Japan

I believe most Americans are only familiar with the Panasonic brand, but up until 2004, most of the Matsushita Corporation electronics and o...

Following from yesterday's post, here is an article from the New York Times about sports recovery. An expert in the article suggests ju...

These was a pretty good article distributed by Kyodo News Agency which gave a quick history and run down of the big sports drinks in Japan....

On the internet and in newspapers there are often articles and examples of Japanese English which was very funny. Sometimes it is a little m...

The use of given names in Japanese is interesting and can be frustrating. First of all, Japanese put the family name first, so the names are...

Here is a picture of a vending machine in transition from Coke Light to Coke Zero. In fact, this might already be dated (it was taken in Ma...

Here is a popular and interesting sports drink. Suntory's Dakara Zero Style claims zero sugar, zero fat and zero salt - thus the name. I...

There is an interesting article in the June 30th edition of Shokuhin Sangyo Shimbun (食品産業新聞) about the Japanese cheese market. Here are some...

There is an article in the June 30th edition of Shokuhin Sangyo Shimbun (食品産業新聞) showing some of the price rises in products made from flour...

There is an interesting chart in the June 27th edition of The Japan Food Journal (日本食糧新聞), showing the Spring tea leaf picking season for la...