Japan has shown keen interest in more Philippine products, including the popular barako coffee with its uniquely strong aroma ...

Fruit processor and vendor Dole Japan Inc. refuses to let bananas that are unsellable go to waste. It turns them into charcoal. It is hoping its banana-based fuel will become commercially ...

The Morning Banana Diet, also known as Asa-Banana Diet, comes from a husband and wife in Japan: Sumiko Watanabe is a pharmacist and preventive medicine expert. Her husband, Hamachi, has studied ...

including Japan and the UK, and sales have been increasing every year. We used to use just by hand, but now we have a very simple machine to extract the banana fibers.

And she’s called Banana Yoshimoto. Yes ... yet do so without ever losing any sense of their ‘Japanese-ness’. However, the worlds these two archetypes inhabit are rather different.