The concept is straightforward: waste oil from homes is gathered, processed and eventually converted into aviation fuel ...

Japanese homemaker Maki Watanabe carefully pours into a plastic bottle the oil she used to cook her deep-fried aubergines, ...

Thieves prowling the streets of Tokyo’s Ginza and Shinjuku entertainment districts overnight are not so much interested in luxury goods these days as they are targeting the waste leftover from making ...

1. Cut the pork shoulder loin into bite-sized pieces and season with salt and pepper, then dust with flour. 2. Shred the cabbage and soak it in water, then drain well. 3. Combine the sake, soy sauce, ...

When you have reached a major goal, what do you do? In the case of chef Yoshinori Ishii, who earned two Michelin stars at Umu in London, he decided to go back to his roots. “I had been cooking ...

Sonoko Sakai is a cooking teacher, writer, noodle maker, and grain activist based in Los Angeles. Last year, she published her cookbook Japanese Home Cooking, which includes over 100 recipes ...

“Can we…eat this?” a man asks, dangling a fresh radish by its greens. We’re standing at a table at the Brooklyn launch party of Cabi, a new brand of Japanese ...

Japan is scrambling to procure a tenth of airline fuel from sustainable sources by 2030. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...