All Japan News Blog
2017-04-24
By Yuji Matsumoto The number of Japanese sake brands available in the U.S. is increasing annually with approximately 450 brands offered domestically. Compared to the approximately 1,500 sake breweries...
2017-04-23
By Kosuke Kuji During hot summer months, we often hear the phrase, “let’s start off with a kampai (toast) with beer!” However, it’s been a long-term effort by our sake industry to request kampai be pr...
2017-04-22
By Aya Ota “TsuruTonTan” is an udon specialty restaurant chain which runs a total of 12 restaurants in Tokyo and Osaka. The menu contains over 30 different items including signature Kansai-style udon ...
2017-04-21
By Keiko Fukuda The ranking contest, “Los Angeles ramen top-10” in the LA Weekly magazine in 2013 awarded Umenoya in Torrance as No. 3. The article read, “You don’t hear the typical loud vibrant greet...
2017-03-19
By Elli Sekine If you walk through the fashionable Mission District where young people gather, and further through the south big street, you arrive at a low-key district where residential and commerci...
2017-03-18
By Yuji Matsumoto In this issue, I’d like to report on a secret to enhance pairing of Japanese cuisine with sake. First, please have three brands of Japanese sake with very different properties. The d...
2017-03-17
By Kosuke Kuji After about 10 years of research and development, Iwate Prefecture announced their new Iwate prefecture original sake brewing suitable rice "Yuinoka". In Iwate Prefecture, they develope...
2017-03-16
By Aya Ota In the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, stylish and innovative stores are appearing one after another, and you find something new every time you visit. People think that this town is most...
2017-03-15
By Keiko Fukuda In Culver City which is located between the city of Los Angeles and Santa Monica, hot restaurants keep popping up one after another in the past few years. The Sony Pictures Studio is l...
2017-02-24
By Elli Sekine They say that there are about 1,000 Japanese restaurants in the bay area. It seems very likely, but didn’t really exist was okonomiyaki restaurants. Okonomiyaki is one of the top Japane...