Inside Japan Centre

Yes, the fifth Japan Food Festival (JAFF) is now here! From the 10th – 30th June online at Japancentre.com and at our Regent Street store we are showcasing regional produce from the Hokuriku region in northwest Japan in collaboration with the Hokuriku Bank.

Not only will this be a chance to try exclusive produce never before sold in the UK, we will also be showcasing these regional specialities, such as miso, ramen and sake in free tastings every day from 2:30pm at our Regent Street store.

If you’re not based in London, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out! All the tasty treats being showcased in JAFF: Hokuriku are now available online at Japancentre.com. You can also check out all the delicious offerings out in our JAFF: Hokuriku leaflet.

Download the full brochure: JAFF: Hokuriku

Our Producers

Specially selected to represent the best and most delicious of Hokuriku fare, each of our producers participating in the fair offer a unique taste of the region. Let’s introduce them below!

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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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Brits have managed to come up with excuses to drink for almost every occasion. But really, there is nothing like an ice-cold pint on a (rare British) summer’s day/at a BBQ/after a long day at work [delete as appropriate]. If you’re feeling bored of the usual supermarket fare, why not try something different this summer with our selection of Japanese brews?

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Love Japanese food and love a bargain? Who doesn’t?! Exclusively for our Blog, Facebook and Twitter followers around the world order online at Japancentre.com today between 12:00 – 14:00 and get 20% OFF all food orders!

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Love Japanese food and love a bargain? Who doesn’t?! Exclusively for our Blog, Facebook and Twitter followers order online at Japancentre.com today between 12:00 – 14:00 and get 10% OFF all food orders!

If you’ve always fancied our Beginner Sushi Kit, have a hankering for ramen, or want to unwind with some soothing green tea, now is the perfect time to order; it’s just like shopping in-store but without the hassle of lugging your haul home! Don’t forget, we always offer Free Delivery on all orders over £100 for 12 Noon and Next Day (after dispatch) UK mainland customers!

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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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The Japan Centre website is experiencing technical difficulties at the moment. We’re working to get everything back and running as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Love Japanese food and love a bargain? Who doesn’t?! Exclusively for our social media followers spend over £20 at Japancentre.com between 11:00 – 13:00 today and get FREE Next Day Delivery (After Dispatch) on all UK mainland orders!

If you’ve always fancied our Beginner Sushi Kit, have a hankering for ramen, or want to unwind with some soothing green tea, now is the perfect time to order; it’s just like shopping in-store but without the hassle of lugging your haul home! Don’t forget, we always offer Free Delivery on all orders over £100 for 12 Noon and Next Day (after dispatch) UK mainland customers!

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Japan Centre in conjunction with Third Windows Films are running a competition giving you the chance to win a set of 2 fantastic DVDs.

Up for grabs we have ‘The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck & God in a Coin Locker’, directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura (Fish Story) and available on DVD from January 14^th, as well as ‘The Woodsman & the Rain’ directed by Shuichi Okita, the winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Film Festival and available on DVD from January 28^th.

Both are really excellent Japanese films with great casts and high international acclaim. We have three copies of both films to give away to three competition winners. Check the details below to learn a bit more about the movies and how to enter.

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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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