Food Science Japan

Private Brands (PB) are brands owned by retailers and not producers. Most well known brands are owned by food producers and are called Natio...

There is an interesting product profile on Nikkei Trendy of Yamazaki's "lunch pack" series. Yamazaki Baking Co. is the larges...

There have been several fishermen "strikes" over the past few months. It started out with an squid fishermen's strike, and ha...

The sale of Anheuser-Busch to InBev (Belgium) is big news in the US, less so here in Japan. A little bit of nationalism comes into play of ...

It appears that Suntory has overtaken Sapporo in the most recent sales figures. Asahi and Kirin are the clear No 1 and No 2, but Sapporo ha...

There was an article in the 2008.06.19 edition of Nikkei Shimbun that says that by the end of 2009, Ajinomoto will start labeling all its se...

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...