The art of 'Hara Hachi Bu' In Japan, there's a centuries-old principle called Hara Hachi Bu, which means "eat until you are 80% full." This practice encourages people to stop eating before they ...

Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. In many respects ...

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CAPE TOWN - A 34-year-old Japanese man on Jan 26 arrived in Cape Town to end a more than 6,000km journey from Kenya to South Africa on foot while pulling a rickshaw. Mr Yuji “Gump” Suzuki was ...

this soy is made the old-fashioned way with whole soy beans. “The marudaizu is much more round, not so salty. It’s more nuanced. It’s more expressive,” he says. So many soy sauces at Marufuji.

Important paintings, fine jewelry and striking decorative objects ranging from Japanese vases to tiny gold boxes drove Clarke Auction Gallery’s October 29-30 auction to a grand total of over $1.5 ...

A Chinese court sentenced a man to death on Friday for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy in Shenzhen last September, Japan's government said, a day after another court handed down the same ...

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a long period of stagnation. Source: FactSet, Bank of Japan By The New York ...

The incident, which occurred in the coastal city of Otaru in Hokkaido, took place at about 11.30am on Jan 23, reported Japanese media. The 61-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital in a ...

Jackson County was once known as the ‘Satsuma Capital of the World.’ There used to be a satsuma festival, parade, and beauty queen. But a brutal freeze in the 1930s virtually killed all of the ...

A court in the Chinese city of Suzhou ruled that the 52-year-old unemployed man, surnamed Zhou, stabbed the trio after he became indebted and lost interest in living, Japan’s Chief Cabinet ...