Natto is a popular Japanese breakfast food. You’ll find it in many family refrigerators. The nation consumes about 7.7 billion 40-gram packets a year. That’s a lot of natto! Natto is fermented, like cheese, but it’s made from soybeans. Natto is very nutritious. One origin story for natto goes something like this: Back in the 10th century, a samurai on an expedition told local...
Toyota To Build a “Woven City” On January 7, 2020, at CES 2020, Toyota Motor Corporation released its plan to build a prototype smart city in Shizuoka Prefecture. All the goods and services will be fully connected online at this living laboratory. The vision is to build a prototype city where the autonomy, mobility as a service, robotics, smart home connected technology, and...
Kei Kobayashi, a 42-year-old French chef and owner of “KEI” in Paris, became the first Japanese-born to win three Michelin stars in France. During the MICHELIN Guide France 2020 Star Revelation ceremony on January 27, 2020, Kobayashi said, “I truly respect France. France has accepted me, a foreign chef. Thank you so much.” in French. Kobayashi was born in Nagano; his father was a...
Suntory Holdings Limited, a Japanese brewing and distilling company, announced the release of “The Yamazaki 55” for 3 million yen (about $27,700). The Yamazaki 55 only uses rarely available aged and unblended whiskies distilled before Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympic. It is a blend of selected whiskies that were aged in white oak from 1964, in Mizunara oak from 1960, etc., which have reached the...
