A Japan-based research team led by Professor Hiroki Obata has been continuing the work of identifying cultivated plants and household pests from Japan’s Jomon period (16,500 – 2,800 years ago) using ...

TOKYO (AP) — A leading Japanese beef bowl chain said it is shutting down almost 2,000 outlets across the country from Monday after a rat and a bug were found in its food. Sukiya has apologized to its ...

Generally when people think about cockroaches they consider them pests or signs of uncleanliness and squalor. However now, thanks to some intrepid scientists in Japan, a cockroach just might be the ...

Shares of Japanese packaged food producer Warabeya Nichiyo Holdings Co. dropped as much as 8.6% on Monday, the most in ten months, after apologizing over cockroach contamination in a rice-ball product ...

ISE, Mie -- A cockroach was found in school lunch at an elementary school in the central Japan town of Minamiise, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 24, the local education board announced. Just last week, it ...

Maruka Foods Corp said it was recalling two types of instant fried noodles, after “a claim from a customer that a foreign object, an insect, had been spotted inside one of the products”. The company ...

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TOKYO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Japan's Warabeya Nichiyo 2918.T saw its shares lose more than 4% on Monday after the food maker disclosed two instances of cockroaches being found inside its rice that were ...

TOKYO (AP) — A leading Japanese beef bowl chain said it is shutting down almost 2,000 outlets across the country from Monday after a rat and a bug were found in its food. Sukiya has apologized to its ...

This photo taken in Nagoya, Japan, June 2, 2022, shows one of the Sukiya franchise restaurants. (Masaki Inui/Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — A leading Japanese beef bowl chain said it is shutting down ...