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Booming numbers of foreign visitors to Japan are driving up prices at restaurants near tourist spots, as a weaker yen makes the country a bargain destination and local wages struggle to keep up with a broader rise in costs. Emblematic of this is the ¥6,980 ($46.52) sashimi-topped rice bowl at Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai, a new retail … Read more
In the quest to replace traditional seafood with alternatives, Berlin-based Pacifico Biolabs believes it has a unique approach to making whole muscle structures using fermentation. While fermentation, the process of growing cells in bioreactors, is already used to make a number of alternative proteins, like cultivated meat, Zac Austin, co-founder and CEO, calls the process … Read more
By John Geddie and Yukiko Toyoda TOKYO (Reuters) -The United States has started bulk buying Japanese seafood to supply its military there in response to China’s ban on such products imposed after Tokyo released treated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. Unveiling the initiative in a Reuters interview on Monday, U.S. … Read more
TOKYO — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel accused China on Friday of utilizing “financial coercion” in opposition to Japan by banning imports of Japanese seafood in response to the discharge of handled wastewater from the broken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, whereas Chinese language boats proceed to fish off Japan’s coasts. “Financial coercion … Read more