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Fast food giant McDonald’s has again halted sales of large and medium-sized portions of French fries in Japan, citing problems in its supply chain, although fans have been quick to share a workaround. The solution for anyone who cannot go without a fix of fries, they say, is simply to order more small portions, even if doing so costs a...

A government campaign in Japan urging people to drink more milk to help the domestic dairy industry tide over a supply glut has not gone down well with some consumers. The oversupply crisis this winter was triggered by a sharp drop in milk consumption as schools which provide individual cartons of milk to children as part of their lunches are...

A week before their wedding, Japan's Princess Mako and her university sweetheart Kei Komuro have finally reunited three years after they last saw each other in person. Komuro, 30, had been in New York completing his law studies, returning to Japan late last month — with a much discussed ponytail — amid a media frenzy to serve quarantine, ahead of...

Jul 19, 2021 A few weeks before the start of this summer’s Olympics, the roughly 70,000 individuals volunteering for the event received a bag of supplies that likely looked nothing like the official kits of the past. In addition to a T-shirt, other items of clothing and a water bottle to keep hydrated in the summer heat, came a bottle of hand sanitizer, two face masks and a record book for recording your health. It’s not like the volunteers are being given hazmat suits, but these i...