Bento is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables as a side dish. Bento can be very elaborate, aesthetically pleasing cuisine arrangements. Often the food is arranged in such a way as to resemble other objects: dolls, flo

Japanese purveyors of minimalist products Muji is offering affordable housing with a new range of wooden (and earthquake proof) modular homes...customers can cook up their dream house as a series of standardised modules pretty much adopting the same principles as the rest of their stripped down product range

Sake (Japanese: 酒; pronounced Listen ) is a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice. In Japanese, the word sake (usually preceded by the honorific prefix o-) does not specifically refer to this specific beverage; instead, the word Nihonshu 日本酒 (literally, "Japanese alcoholic beverage") is used to distinguish it from other beverages. In English, the word sake never refers to anything other than Nihonshu. This article uses the word "sake" as it is used in English.Sake is also commonly referred to in English as "rice wine", but the characterisation implied is not accurate. Wine is made from the single fermentation of plant juices. Sake is produced by multiple fermentation of rice, which is more similar to how beer is produced. Also, outside Japan there exist other beverages known as "rice wine" that are significantly different from Nihonshu.