Japanese candy surpasses American in many regards. The candies feature exciting, unusual flavors (musk melon, kabocha pumpkin, soy sauce), packaging that’s covered with animated figures and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sakuma’s Drops candy will be discontinued as its Tokyo-based maker Sakuma Seika Co. goes out of business due to poor sales. With ...

Now that autumn has arrived, the summer heat is merely a memory in many parts of the Northern hemisphere, including Japan. Many Japanese homes have motor-operated or hand-cranked shaved ice machines ...

A flavorless candy appeared briefly in Japanese convenience stores and may never be sold again. We consider this news. It had no taste by design. Even its name, Flavorless (?) Candy — yes, with a ...

Things weren’t exactly easy. In fact, many stores in Japan didn’t even want to carry the product. Sweets that you drink out of a plastic toilet? Eh… But now, Moko Moko Mokoletto is flushed with ...