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At many conveyor-belt sushi restaurants in Japan, every seat comes with the same small kit: a stack of cups, a hot-water tap built into the counter, and a little jar of bright green powder with a tiny scoop. You add a scoop, press the ta...

Picture a bowl of ramen with a pale golden broth. You lean in, and the smell is sweet and toasty, yet it isn't pork at all. That's Tottori Gyukotsu Ramen (鳥取牛骨ラーメン), a regional ramen made with beef bone broth. Today, you'll find ...

Sit down at a sushi counter in Tokyo, and before you have even opened the menu, a tall, heavy cup lands in front of you. The tea inside is a deep, slightly cloudy green, very hot and pleasantly strong. Most visitors drink it without a se...

Open a box of live Himeshima kuruma prawns, and the sawdust inside may suddenly move. The striped prawns come from a small island off Oita Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. There, land once used for salt making gave way to seawater po...

Sekiaji (Seki horse mackerel, 関あじ) is a branded Japanese jack mackerel from Saganoseki, in Oita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. It is not a separate species. Only fish caught individually by hook and line, known as ippon-zuri (一...

In Oita, some pigs eat rice before they reach the table. That simple detail sits behind Kome no Megumi pork (米の恵み), the prefecture's unified pork brand. The name means “blessing of rice,” and it covers pork from pigs given feed with ...

Adding seawater to tomato soil sounds as if it should make the fruit salty. Yet in Hiji, a small town on Beppu Bay in Oita Prefecture, growers use carefully controlled seawater cultivation for a different reason. It limits how much water...

A bowl of hot rice arrives topped with slices of raw tuna, glossy with a sweet sesame-soy sauce. That bowl is Hyugadon (ひゅうが丼), a Japanese marinated tuna rice bowl from Tsukumi in Oita Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. People als...

Bottles with a bold "23" on the label appear on sake lists in Japan and overseas. The figure is easy to mistake for alcohol strength, but it means something else. Dassai sake is a Junmai Daiginjo brand from Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefectur...

Picture a Japanese yellowtail raised on feed that contains locally grown citrus peel. It may sound unusual, but in Tokushima the idea has become a recognized regional brand. Sudachi Buri (すだちぶり) is farmed in Kitanada, just west of t...