In a community that is surrounded by mountains, straw has been an integral part of daily life through the use of sandals, trivets and baskets for picking Japanese sansho peppers. By living in such an ...

Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd will replace paper straws with plant-derived biomass alternatives at its outlets from this month, aiming to halve waste and emissions by 2030. The major coffee chain ...

Coffee giant Starbucks has introduced biodegradable straws made from plant-based materials in Japan to cut plastic use and waste. Five years after ditching plastic for paper, Starbucks Japan is ...

Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd. will replace paper straws with plant-derived biomass alternatives at its outlets from January, aiming to halve waste and emissions by 2030. The major coffee chain operator ...

Roughly five years ago, Starbucks Japan switched from plastic straws to paper ones, in an effort to be more environmentally friendly. But while this change was made in order to make Mother Nature ...

NIIGATA—Five huge sculptures made with rice straw aptly represent the theme of Niigata city’s annual Wara Art Festival: legends of Echigo Province. The event, running at Uwasekigata Koen park ...

When you pop a spoonful of the jiggly orange jelly in your mouth ... A large portion of oranges sold in Japan are imported. According to the Finance Ministry’s trade statistics, around 90,000 ...