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Muji: Retail Giant Launches Shelf-Stable Plant-Based Meat Range Amid Vegan Demand Surge
Japanese retail chain Muji has announced that it is releasing four new plant-based meat alternatives across its online and brick-and-mortar stores this month. The news comes amid the rising demand for plant-based foods among mainstream!-->…
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Japan’s Largest Chemical Giant Enters Plant-Based Meat Supply Chain
Shin-Etsu Chemical, one of the world's largest suppliers of plastics and chip-making materials and the biggest chemical company in Japan, has just made its first entry into the plant-based meat supply chain. It has developed a new binding!-->…
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IntegriCulture Gets US$2.2M Government Grant To Build Cell-Ag Facility
Japanese food tech IntegriCulture Inc. has been awarded a ¥240 million (US$2.2 million) grant from the government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to build its commercial cellular agriculture facility. Constructing its commercial!-->…
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5 Signs That Japan’s Vegan Food Scene Is Having A Moment
While the plant-based trend seems to have experienced a slower uptick in Japan, it looks like it’s now hitting the country in a major way. From vegan bakeries serving up dairy-free Japanese-style milk buns to 100% plant-based burger joints!-->…
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Muji Launches Furniture Rental Subscription Service With Work-From-Home Sets
Japanese homeware retailer Muji is introducing a furniture subscription service as working from home becomes the new normal after months of the coronavirus pandemic. Launching this Friday (July 17), consumers in Japan will be able to rent!-->…
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Tokyo Burger Joint Goes 100% Vegan After Pandemic Wake-Up Call
Great Lakes Tokyo, a burger restaurant in Tokyo, has recently revamped into a 100% vegan restaurant amid the coronavirus pandemic. For restaurant owner John Penny, the decision was made after realising how the animal industry contributed!-->…
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Germany Bans Single-Use Plastic, Japan Begins Plastic Bag Charging Scheme
Governments are beginning to take concrete action against plastic pollution. From Germany to Japan, new legislation is clamping down on single-use plastics as economies begin to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, which has shifted!-->…
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Japan Authorities To Set Regulatory Standards For Cultivated & Alternative Meat
Cultivated and other alternative proteins will soon have rules drawn up by Japan’s Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry. The announcement comes as food security concerns continue to loom large amid the coronavirus pandemic, on top!-->…
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Ocean Park Dreams: How The Hong Kong Tourist Attraction Fuels The Taiji Trade Supplying China’s Dolphinariums
Between September and March every year, fishermen in the Japan's small coastal town of Taiji go on a gruesome hunt for dolphins. Famously depicted in the documentary film The Cove, the so-called Taiji dolphin hunters lure pods of dolphins!-->…
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Japanese Plant-Based Startup Daiz Secures US$6M To Open Vegan Meat Factory
Japanese food tech Daiz announced this month that it has raised ¥650 million (US$6 million) in a Series A funding round. The investment was led by Japanese state-backed fund A-Five and tech venture capital firm Mitsubishi UFJ Capital. Daiz!-->…
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Japan’s IntegriCulture Raises US$7.4M, Largest Series A For Asia Alt Protein Sector
Japanese food tech IntegriCulture Inc. has just completed its Series A funding with ¥800 million (US$7.4 million). The round was led by Beyond Next Ventures, NH Foods and AgFunder, and marks the largest Series A raised by the cultivated!-->…
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“The Onsen Experience”: New Travel Guide Book Into Japan’s Eco-Friendly Onsens For Your Next Sustainable Trip
In a new wellness-focused travel guide, author and avid traveler Iris Law with local publisher Man Mo Media takes readers on a journey into Japan’s most beautiful and eco-friendly onsen ryokan accommodations. Titled The Onsen Experience: A!-->…
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Particle Accelerator Can Make Stronger Cherry Blossoms To Weather Global Heating
By: Roku Goda
Cherry blossoms have long been loved by Japanese and celebrated in poetry as harbingers of spring. In the early Heian Period (794-1185), Ariwara no Narihira penned a piece about how people became very excited every spring!-->!-->!-->…
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MOS Burger Debuts New 100% Vegan Green Burger In Japan
MOS Burger has become the first homegrown fast food chain in Japan to debut a 100% plant-based burger. Dubbed the Green Burger, Mos Burger developed the vegan dish in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to!-->…
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Japan’s Climate Plan Remains Unchanged Despite Rapid Global Heating
Japan has recently published its plans to tackle greenhouse gas emissions under their Paris Agreement commitments ahead of the United Nations climate talks this year, but it has been attacked by environmentalists who criticise the!-->…
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Umiki, The World’s First Ocean Fused Sustainable Whisky From Japan
Umiki Whisky, the world’s first ocean fused whisky brand has recently been added to the portfolio of Japan’s leading premium alcohol exporter Yoshino Spirits Co. Made from pure ocean water in the blending process and finished in local!-->…
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Kamikatsu, The Waste-Free Village Of Japan, Is Setting An Example For The World
A remote village on the Japanese island of Shikoku has been practicing a low-waste economy for nearly 20 years. By contrast to Japan’s nationwide record of being the world’s second largest producer of plastic waste, the town of Kamikatsu!-->…
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Japan Airlines To Serve Vegan Beyond Burgers On Select Flights Until May
Japan’s national flag carrier line Japan Airlines will be serving vegan burgers using Beyond Meat’s plant-based patties on select routes between Tokyo and the United States. The vegan burger option will be available to first class!-->…
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Japan To Build 22 New Coal Power Plants, Blatantly Ignoring Climate Risk
Perhaps one of the most damaging consequences a decade after the haunting Fukushima nuclear disaster forced Japan to close all but one of their nuclear power programs, the country is now planning to build up to 22 new coal-burning!-->…
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Japan To Transform Fukushima Into Renewable Hub, But Activists Skeptical
The northeast region of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan is set to become the country’s renewable energy hub. The latest project, which is sponsored by the state-owned Development Bank of Japan and Mizuho Bank, seeks to transform Fukushima,!-->…
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Vegan Store: Japan’s First Plant-Based Convenience Store Opens In Tokyo’s Asakusa ‘Hood
A brand new Japanese convenience store, Vegan Store, has just opened in Tokyo’s Asakusa neighbourhood. The store will offer everything Japanese convenience stores typically offer, from a huge variety of quick bites to bento boxes and!-->…
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