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AKITA--A long-established north Japan manufacturer and seller of" ekiben"--bento meals sold at railway stations--will open a limited-time store at Lyon station in Paris from November this year to the end of April next year.... In addition to its famous" Torimeshi Bento," the Akita Prefecture's Odate-based Hanazen will also sell bento meals made with ingredients produced in the prefecture.... The new EKIBEN ToriMeshi Bento store at Lyon station is expected to generate about 82 million yen( abou

BANGKOK — My grandmother in Tokyo kept a pail under her sink.... But until the coronavirus pandemic, my job as an international correspondent for The New York Times required a lot of time not being at home.... And so one of the first things I did was to get my hands on some nuka....

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. TOKYO — It is every foreign correspondent’s nightmare: a family emergency when you are half a world away. For me, the call came last month.... He and my mother were in California.... Suddenly, I was facing questions unique to the pandemic — whether it would be wise to travel, or whether I could forgive myself if I didn’t....