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Always find yourself trudging back from the shops with heavy bags of rice? Forget to buy rice in the first place? We’ve all been there, I’m sure. Well, worry no more – Japancentre.com has launched a new service aimed at taking the stress away from the monthly trip to the shops for UK mainland customers.

The idea is to order a 6-month subscription to a bag of rice, and we’ll take care of the work and send you your rice every month on the same day! Plus, by participating, you’ll save on a whole bag of rice! Couldn’t be better, right? Wrong – if you order now, we’ll throw in FREE SHIPPING as well!

Please pay attention to the Terms and Conditions after the jump.

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Japan Centre is not only located in London, oh no! In 2013 we will be visiting many locations around Europe bringing all the best Japan Centre goodies to you! Keep an eye on our Events Calendar to see where we will be popping up next, you never know if could be in your neighbourhood!

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If you’re setting up shop or opening a new eatery and are in need of wholesale quantity items, not only do Japan Centre have catering supplies available to purchase via our online shopping site, but we are also now able to offer bulk wholesale ordering from our warehouse for quantities over 1 pallet.

Please contact our wholesale team directly on wholesale@japancentre.com or 020 3405 1151 to discuss the details of your request. Alternatively please visit us at the Japan Centre Warehouse, Unit 15 – 18 Victoria Industrial Estate, Victoria Road W3 6UU.

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Partly thanks to fierce competition between companies and partly thanks to Japan’s love of seasonal, regional or otherwise unusual food there are probably more weirdly flavoured Japanese snacks than it’s possible to eat in a lifetime.

Of course most of these are just fun unusual flavours, cheesecake flavoured KitKats, watermelon flavoured Pepsi or even savoury sour plum flavoured pretzels. The kind of thing that brightens your day while you’re doing the shopping. Some however, some just make you stare. You take a moment, look at the snack again, but nope someone really did decide to make Sapporo Beer Flavoured Caramel.

Join us on a trip down the Top 5: Strange Japanese Snack Flavours, climbing the heights of Japan’s oddest, weirdest… and even most delicious confectionery and treats.
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We’ve all been there at the start of a diet, that sudden eye-popping reduction in food and a desperate attempt to live off salad in the cold winter months; foolishly we think we have to sacrifice taste and happiness to get the body beautiful… wrong! With our 5 Japanese Diet Secrets we’ll tell you all you need to know to easily change your eating habits, improve your health and trim down in no time, whilst not having to live by ridiculously restrictive rules. Hurrah!

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After one too many pigs-in-blankets, a near-empty Quality Street tin down (apart from the orange creams, we’re not mad) and Baileys running through our veins it’s time to take off the gluttony glasses and kick start 2013 with a healthy-eating plan you can easily stick to and tastes amazing. Impossible we hear you cry! No no no, there’s a reason Japan has the lowest obesity rate and the longest life expectancy in the world and in the coming weeks we’ll share Japan’s diet secrets with you. Read More…

Planning on popping along to see us this festive season? Make sure you check we’re open! Please see below for all our store location opening times between Christmas and New Year.

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Get your gifts in time for the big day!

We love doing our Christmas shopping online, but it does mean that we can’t leave it until Christmas Eve to do it all! If you want guaranteed delivery before Christmas from Japan Centre Online there are a few dates to be aware of to make sure you receive your order in time. Please be aware these dates are also for guaranteed delivery before New Year.

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With the recent demand for one-dish eateries serving popular comfort food seeing no sign of diminishing, Japan Centre has decided it’s time to show the UK how Hakata ramen is done and opens SHORYU RAMEN on Saturday 24th November at 9 Regent Street.

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On 15th September you have an amazing chance to take part in a Free Sushi Making & Tasting Event held by our founder Tak Tokumine at 3:30pm in our Regent Street store. To celebrate 36 years of Japan Centre in the UK we’re holding a fun, hands-on and most importantly free sushi making and tasting class in store – think of it as our gift to you (isn’t it supposed to be the other way round!)

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