The regular season is kicking off in Tokyo with a two-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs, both of which have been boosted by Japanese players.

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The six Japanese Kit Kat flavors in this 50-piece sampler box make it a great gift for the sweet tooth or jet setter. Fair ...

It was an outdoor-day kind of morning. Cotton-candy clouds drifted across the summer sky. I had just completed the sixth ...

Brock Keeling, Restaurant Reporter Regular fries from Blue Dog Beer Tavern in Sherman Oaks ... taffy (with an errant banana escapee) at the Candy Baron in Laguna Beach. (Photo by Brock Keeling ...

Kirin is selling its China soft drinks joint venture to an investment fund, the Japanese beer and beverage maker said Wednesday. The move comes shortly after Kirin decided to pull out of a joint ...

Japanese beer, and mocktails. The interior: The owners say the inside of the restaurant will be an intimate, upscale environment perfect for date nights, with diffused lighting, and tables overlooking ...

Who else worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, to keep their community supplied with chocolate caramels and root-beer floats? They were the proprietors of Parkside Candy Shoppe, at Main and West ...

Last year was particularly hard going, with beer sales down 3 per cent. It’s not great news for the $28 billion Japanese beverage giant Asahi Group and its Oceania division Asahi Beverages ...

The promoter group, which includes Jain, owns 17.2% of the company, Japanese beer manufacturer Kirin holds 22.5%, Sequoia 13.4%, Peak XV 5.9%, Sith Sense 4.2%, Tiger Pacific has 4.1% and Japan's ...