So what is it that makes this fruit so expensive? From the Yubari King to the Andes, the Higo green melon, and many more, melons are grown up and down Japan, and they're serious business.

Apples and mandarin oranges in winter. Japan is blessed with mouthwatering seasonal fruit throughout the year. And yet, fruit consumption remains relatively low. The health ministry’s latest ...

Everyone involved — Erewhon, Elly Amai and Antoci — pointed out that the special strawberries are a result of Japanese luxury fruit culture. And this isn’t even the most expensive fruit one ...

Often referred to as sour plums or Japanese apricots, Umeboshi plums are round, dried, and pickled fruits that have a ...

Metaphor is a potent literary technique. Long before social media emoji, fruits have been used suggestively in poetry. Shiki ...

When I think of autumn in Japan, I think of chestnuts, matsutake mushrooms and persimmons. Persimmons were known to the ancient Greeks as the “fruit of the gods”, and with good reason.

He stopped the bulldozers without a plan. But the first year, he was able to sell his fruit to an organic baby-food processor. Then, a Japanese-American fruit buyer who went to college with Mas ...

In Japan, fruits that line storefronts remind us of the seasons. As the season changes from summer to autumn, every fruit bears a story. On a remote southern island, merchants gather at a fruit ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- A beloved fruit parlor from Kinokawa, Wakayama prefecture in western Japan, has made its way to a popular resort town of Noboribetsu in Hokkaido. Hopes are high that the store's ...