Japanese Snack Reviews

Kirin is doing some sort of promotion in which they talk about the combination of fruit and salt. I am very aware that salt can do a lot...

I've mentioned in my other blog that the Japanese don't do April Fool's day and I was always immensely grateful for that. I...

Last year, when energy conservation measures were first implemented to help compensate for losing nuclear power, Kirin introduced beer...

There were many perfectly reasonable and innocent word combinations in Japan which, because of different cultural connotations, were fu...

You have to admire Kirin's testicular fortitude and not because they named this drink "Nuda". Using anything that implies nudi...

My husband and I went out last weekend in search of an available iPad (for him, not me) with no success, but I did catch this ad on the tra...

I have a feeling that a lot of the soft drink industry in Japan is driven by the desire of alcoholic beverage makers to make mixers. Very of...

I usually don't check the origin of the snacks that I buy as long as the writing on the package is in Japanese. I figure that it being m...

Wouldn't it be cool if "Cola Shock" involved actual shocking? I'm not talking about a cattle prod to the tongue or anythin...