Sixty-year-old Yashiro Haga is folding his Tokyo noodle ramen shop after 15 years in December, unable to overcome the prospect of a lasting customer slump due to the coronavirus crisis.

Pufferfish is regarded as a luxury in Japan and a meal featuring the potentially poisonous delicacy can easily cost up to 20,000 yen ($125) at high-end restaurants. But now, adventurous foodies in ...

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Japan is home to more than 32,000 ramen shops, many of them packed, with lines snaking out the door. What has become the country's unofficial national dish — defined as a wheat noodle soup — ...