Japanese candy surpasses American in many regards. The candies feature exciting, unusual flavors (musk melon, kabocha pumpkin, soy sauce), packaging that’s covered with animated figures and ...

Cotton candy is a treat that was once affectionately called fairy floss and might as well be an official marker of nostalgia and child-like joy. Of all the foods to have made an impression in Japan, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sakuma’s Drops candy will be discontinued as its Tokyo-based maker Sakuma Seika Co. goes out of business due to poor sales. With ...

Cost Plus World Market has a little bit of everything, including candies and other food from all over the world. I like to raid the candy options every time I'm in the store, and every time, I find a ...

Now that autumn has arrived, the summer heat is merely a memory in many parts of the Northern hemisphere, including Japan. Many Japanese homes have motor-operated or hand-cranked shaved ice machines ...

Has there ever been a bigger Japanese-sweets-overseas success story than Hi-Chew? Sure, Japanese dessert flavors, like matcha and sakura, have made inroads in other countries, as have certain sweet ...

Candy Japan is a service that gives people around the world twice a month Japanese sweets to their homes, operated at $ 25 a month (about 2,500 yen) and can be used from Japan. The graph below shows ...

A flavorless candy appeared briefly in Japanese convenience stores and may never be sold again. We consider this news. It had no taste by design. Even its name, Flavorless (?) Candy — yes, with a ...