An interesting video showing the various people who buy sausages from a shop on a train station platform in Osaka:

Thousands of commuters pass through Kyobashi Station in Osaka every day. For 600 of them the singular highlight is a sausage.
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“Nanikore Chin Hakkei” finds a restaurant in Gunma prefecture that proudly serves mayonnaise ramen:

The woman says it tastes unexpectedly good, and other customers seem to like it.

Mayo Ramen:

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If you’re interested in visiting it and trying the ramen, here’s its location on Google Maps:
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The international media has jumped on a Sankei report about Hatoyama’s dislike of eating whale:

“I hate whale meat,” Hatoyama said during a meeting with his visiting Dutch counterpart Jan Peter Balkenende on Monday at the prime minister’s office, the Sankei Shimbun reported.
The Netherlands is one of several anti-whaling countries that allows the radical environmental group [...]

Japan’s fast food chains are stepping up their efforts to draw customers in the morning, reports Fuji TV news:

According to Japanese government statistics, nearly 14 million Japanese people don’t eat breakfast every morning. Fast food chains are hoping to cash in on the non-breakfast-eaters who are hungry in the morning but too busy to [...]

“The Cove” got its first screening in Japan the other day at the Tokyo International Film Festival. How did audiences react?
According to the AP, there were “mixed” reactions from Japanese viewers:
Junko Inoue, a resident of Saitama, north of Tokyo, said she found the final scene, where dozens of dolphins trapped in a hidden cove [...]

Mainichi reports that supermarkets across Japan are offering great deals on apples that suffered some damage from last week’s typhoon:

The apples, priced at a mere 15 yen per 100 grams, hail from orchards in Iwate Prefecture, where Typhoon Melor triggered a massive preharvest drop of apples earlier this month.
Though damaged and irregular in size, the [...]

NTV’s “Zoom In” finds a panel of Japanese-speaking Italians and asks them what they think of tomato nabe, a type of dish that has become popular lately:

They say that no such dish exists in Italy, and that it tastes great.
We are then shown two recipes for creating tomato nabe. One involves diced [...]

A TV show visits a restaurant in Nagasaki, Japan’s #1 whale-consuming city:

They start out eating whale sashimi. They are then treated to a course of whale meat shabu shabu (the hotpot, not the drug). The sashimi and shabu shabu courses are 2,100 yen and 4,730 yen each.
[hat tip to Shironbo7441]
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Since most Japanese place names are written the same in Japanese and Chinese, one occasionally comes across Chinese links when running kanji search queries through Google News.
While searching for news stories about Taiji, the Japanese town that is being targeting by animal rights activists because of its dolphin hunt, I found the following tasteful cartoon [...]

The last Cup Noodle commercial had Takuya Kimura walking through redwood forests. Now he’s in India for a Bollywood-style musical promotion of Cup Noodle’s curry flavor:

The song lyrics consist of Kimutaku repeatedly announcing the existence of corocha curry Cup Noodle. The woman interrupts him to suggest that he say it tastes good, since [...]

Cup Noodle follows the path that humans once used when crossing over from Asia into the Americas:

I hope Kimutaku didn’t leave his empty cup in the middle of the forest.
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Regular readers of this blog have probably heard about Japanese fast food chains offering “mega” sized menu items. Since not all Japanese want to gorge themselves on giant portions, the same chains are now beginning to offer “puchi” (tiny) sized food:

The above clip discusses how Mos Burger recently cut the size and price of [...]