Japanese crystal candy is a stunning sweet treat that looks very similar to rock candy. Only, crystal candy uses a much ...

Cost Plus World Market has a little bit of everything, including candies and other food from all over the world. I like to raid the candy options every time I'm in the store, and every time, I find a ...

After living in Japan for months as an exchange student, it’s equal parts familiar and different. And this extends to snacks.

Japanese candy surpasses American in many regards. The candies feature exciting, unusual flavors (musk melon, kabocha pumpkin, soy sauce), packaging that’s covered with animated figures and ...

TOKYO — When you enter a store devoted to the good ol' KitKat chocolate bar, and suddenly find flavors available in green tea, raspberry, pistachio, maple, strawberry and even a bar that's ...

Sakuma’s Drops candy will be discontinued as its Tokyo-based maker Sakuma Seika Co. goes out of business due to poor sales. With eight fruit flavors available, the iconic, colorful hard candies are ...

Has there ever been a bigger Japanese-sweets-overseas success story than Hi-Chew? Sure, Japanese dessert flavors, like matcha and sakura, have made inroads in other countries, as have certain sweet ...

And despite the fact that only about one percent of the Japanese population is Christian, their Easter candy is far superior to what you’ll find in America. Case in point: They’ve got pancake-flavored ...

Recently, Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart has become known for its frappes, which are sold in the freezer section and blended by customers at a machine on the counter. Every now and then, ...

If the past 44 years of Super Bowl commercials are anything to go by, brevity is the soul of wit, especially when it comes to convincing football watchers to buy products and talk about them at the ...