nattō has failed to gain popularity outside of Japan. It has, however, attracted enough attention to end up in the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö, Sweden. Ma-no/Getty Images Variations on the ...

Lewistsepuilung / Getty Images ... to order at the Food Market. I went on a Sunday a little after noon, and the place was packed. Jen Adams Their menu consisted of various Japanese comfort foods ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For all of its exuberantly vast scale, and all its sumptuous products, and its fizzingly enthusiastic post ...

Japanese food, known in Japan, as washoku (和食), is still enjoying an unprecedented boom— even four years after UNESCO declared Japanese cuisine to be an Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2013.

Fukuoka, Japan’s sixth largest city by population, has more open-air food stalls than the rest of the country combined. These stalls are called yatais, and they’re an indelible part of what ...