Japan’s specialty grocer chain Kaldi is most famous for its coffee ... The most important parts of the Japanese text on the front of that package are チョコ, “chocolate,” and 餅, “mochi,” but the whole ...

TSUYAMA, Okayama Prefecture--It might not be to everyone’s taste but chocolate based on a recipe from the Edo Period (1603-1867) is now on sale in Japan. The brainchild of an enterprising ...

now operates 28 preschools in Japan and three more overseas ... For example, 97 percent of the letters in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” are lowercase, Nakayama said.