BOSTON, Massachusetts -- The group behind Sushiro, Japan's largest conveyor-belt sushi chain, officially opened its first sushi restaurant in the U.S. on Thursday in Boston. Sakabayashi Sushi ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts -- The group behind Sushiro, Japan's largest conveyor-belt sushi chain, officially opened its first sushi restaurant in the U.S. on Thursday in Boston. Sakabayashi Sushi ...

But Food & Life Companies, a publicly-traded Japanese firm with more than 1,000 restaurants across Asia, chose Boston as its first US outpost, with its sushi restaurant’s grand opening next week.

Around the turn of this century, Ryuichiro Masuda, the fifth-generation head of Japan’s Masuda Sake Brewery, returned home from a few months of R&R (the research and relaxation variation ...

BANGKOK – “Well, they weren’t kidding about the extra legroom, were they?” remarked my travel companion, Mr Christoph Fretter, 40, a German close to 1.8m tall. “If we brought sleeping ...

Yoshiaki Shiraishi invented conveyor belt sushi after a visit to the Asahi Brewery. As the owner of an understaffed sushi restaurant, he started the first conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Higashi ...

Operators of conveyor belt sushi chains, already hit by higher costs for ingredients and lingering COVID-19 concerns, are now dealing with a new problem: the disgusting antics of some of their ...

(Mainichi/Kazuhisa Soneda) KUSATSU, Shiga -- A 74-year-old woman was mistakenly arrested on April 13 for allegedly shoplifting "inarizushi" fried tofu filled with sushi rice, and was released ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will open SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024 on Saturday, where visitors will be able to fully experience the city of the future. The Global Startup Program and the City Leaders ...

Taiwan’s semiconductor giant, TSMC, is quickly remaking a farm town in Japan into Asia’s next hub ... chains were passed around and plates of sushi placed in front of each person.

By Motoko Rich Reporting from Tokyo When President Biden welcomes Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, to Washington this week for a visit highlighted by the pomp of a state dinner ...