MERRY-GO-ROUND SUSHI

MERRY-GO-ROUND SUSHI, Sushi Restaurant, Counter, Conveyor belt sushi, Kittokito Sushi, Bikkuri Sushi, Conveyor belt sushi Torachan, Conveyor belt sushi Tsukiji Honten, Restaurant, Conveyor belt sushi stand manufacturing, Lane manufacturing, Conveyor manufacturing, Plate, Tokuno Nobuo-san, One-pot, Conveyor belt barbeque, Lane barbeque, Conveyor belt yum cha=Date:1998, Place:Tokyo,JAPAN

NEVER TOO LATE FOR CHEESE CAKE

NEVER TOO LATE FOR CHEESE CAKE, Johann cheesecake, cake shop, cheesecake Johann Honten, JOHANN, Nakameguro Station, long-established cheesecake specialty store, Toshichiro Wada=Date:May 4,1994, Place:Meguro-ku, Tokyo,JAPAN

Restoring historic buildings

Restoring historic buildings

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in August 2012 shows an outlet of sake brewery Otokoyama Honten Co., which was damaged by the March 2011 tsunami, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The World Monuments Fund in New York said on March 7, 2013, that it will give $250,000 to rebuild seven historic buildings in Kesennuma, including the Okotoyama Honten store.

Time-honored "koji" store thriving on magical ingredient

Time-honored "koji" store thriving on magical ingredient

OITA, Japan - Myoho Asari (R), her father Koichi (2nd from R) and her second son Ryotoku (L) prepare steamed rice for putting koji mold into it on Nov. 7, 2012, at their store Kojiya Honten in Saiki, Oita Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

Time-honored "koji" store thriving on magical ingredient

Time-honored "koji" store thriving on magical ingredient

OITA, Japan - Photo shows Kojiya Honten, a producer and retailer of "koji" fermented seasoning made from rice malt, at sundown on a street in Saiki, Oita Prefecture. The street is home to a number of long-established stores. Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2012. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

'Beni' salon in Tokyo's Aoyama

'Beni' salon in Tokyo's Aoyama

TOKYO, Japan - A staffer applies ''beni'' rouge-colored traditional Japanese lip paint on a visitor at a salon of Isehan Honten Beni Museum in Tokyo's Minami Aoyama district on Sept. 22, 2010. The salon lets visitors experience the application of the rare makeup, which is metallic green until mixed with water and comes painted inside an elaborate Japanese porcelain cup.

Liquor shop in Tokyo's Ginza offers selection of rare regional rice wines

Liquor shop in Tokyo's Ginza offers selection of rare regional rice wines

Reiichi Fujita, a Japanese rice wine steward, picks a recommendation from a selection of over 200 brands of sake offered at his shop, "Ginza Sake Gallery Kojiya Sanshiro Shuho Honten," in Tokyo's Higashi-Ginza district on March 31, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

'Beni' salon in Tokyo's Aoyama

'Beni' salon in Tokyo's Aoyama

TOKYO, Japan - A staffer applies ''beni'' rouge-colored traditional Japanese lip paint on a visitor at a salon of Isehan Honten Beni Museum in Tokyo's Minami Aoyama district on Sept. 22, 2010. The salon lets visitors experience the application of the rare makeup, which is metallic green until mixed with water and comes painted inside an elaborate Japanese porcelain cup. (Kyodo)

Int'l body adopts EU proposal to gather eel trade data

Int'l body adopts EU proposal to gather eel trade data

A cook charcoal broils "unagi" eels on Sept. 26, 2016, at Tokyo's long-established Miyagawa Honten restaurant that specializes in serving the fish. The conference of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora adopted an EU-proposed draft resolution the previous day to collect data on the eel trade to protect the widely consumed fish. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo