In the past few years, the word “bento danshi” has been popular in Japan. “Bento” means home-packed meal. JAPAN Style has posted some articles about bento before. (To see…

  The following chart is the “top 10 Japan’s favorite egg dishes” collected by Japanese popular chart site “goo” last month.   #1: Omurice Fried rice with chicken and ketcup…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Originality comes after the accumulation of basic knowledge” Today’s story teller is a world class chocolatier, Jean-Paul Hevin. He is French but he…

  Since April 5, Japanese McDonald’s started “Taste of Japan” campaign. What they are featuring now is the new style buns called “mochi mochi buns”, which are added mochi powder…

Colorful and cute French sweet, macaron has been very popular in Japan in the past few years. To explain simply, a macaron is a meringue cookie sandwich filled with cream…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Temptation of Bread!?” Today’s story teller is a novelist, KikukoTsumura. Being early 30s, she said her food preference changed since she was in…

    In Japan, we have custom of having party under cherry blossoms in spring. We call it “hanami” and it literally means flower viewing.  

JAPAN Style has some vending machine stories in past entries but in Japan, vending machines can be found every corner through the country. Most of them are probably beverages. The…

The Japanese people are very particular and passionate about food, so there are all kinds of food events held in many parts of Japan. In the past five years, especially…

The Japanese people love blogging and the fact is known in the world. Many Japanese blog about food but I think this is the only blogger who only focuses on…

Kyoto, the city with countless Japanese historical shrines, temples and architectures. It’s a popular tourists’ destination as well as Tokyo. In such refined city, there is a coffee shop that…