A Japanese noodle manufacturer has launched the world’s first canned ramen made with wheat noodles which will soon be available in vending machines across the country. Maruyama Seimen’s canned ...

And the shop emphasizes it only uses ingredients produced in Japan. “We used to make vending machines for a few years after the war, but we no longer make them, nor can we repair them,” a ...

Vending machines and traditional wooden kokeshi dolls are both icons of Japanese culture, and a hot spring resort in northeastern Fukushima Prefecture has combined the two. The novelty of being ...

While no country can compete with Japan in terms of sheer vending ... a vending machine” seems like a one-way ticket to food poisoning. Vending machines aren’t always about corporate America ...

Although Japan has taken legal steps to build a smoke ... the most important equipment there is the vending machine. The free area opened in April, and office workers in business suits have ...