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Food chain president shot dead

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Dec. 19, 2013, shows the site where Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot earlier the same day. The president of the company, which operates a Chinese dumpling restaurant chain under the "Gyoza no Ohsho" brand in Japan, was found lying in a parking lot in front of the company's head office just before 7 a.m. and was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, according to the Kyoto prefectural police.

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Food chain president shot dead

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken in Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Dec. 19, 2013, shows the site (L back) where Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot earlier the same day. The president of the company, which operates a Chinese dumpling restaurant chain under the "Gyoza no Ohsho" brand in Japan, was found lying in a parking lot in front of the company's head office (seen at the right) just before 7 a.m. and was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, according to the Kyoto prefectural police.

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Food chain president shot dead

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Dec. 19, 2013, shows the site where Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot earlier the same day. The president of the company, which operates a Chinese dumpling restaurant chain under the "Gyoza no Ohsho" brand in Japan, was found lying in a parking lot in front of the company's head office just before 7 a.m. and was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, according to the Kyoto prefectural police.

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Food chain president shot dead

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Dec. 19, 2013, shows the site where Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot earlier the same day. The president of the company, which operates a Chinese dumpling restaurant chain under the "Gyoza no Ohsho" brand in Japan, was found lying in a parking lot in front of the company's head office just before 7 a.m. and was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, according to the Kyoto prefectural police.

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Utsunomiya regains Japan's No. 1 dumpling city status

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Utsunomiya city officials and "gyoza" dumpling restaurant managers shout banzai at the city hall on Jan. 31, 2014, after central government data listed the Tochigi prefectural capital as having the nation's highest average household spending on the food item in 2013.

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Utsunomiya regains Japan's No. 1 dumpling city status

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Utsunomiya city officials and "gyoza" dumpling restaurant managers break a celebratory ball at the city hall on Jan. 31, 2014, after central government data listed the Tochigi prefectural capital as having the nation's highest average household spending on the food item in 2013.

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New type of pesticide found in Chinese-made dumplings

TOKYO, Japan - A new type of toxic organophosphate pesticide has been detected in ''gyoza'' dumplings (shown in photo) made by Tianyang Food in China's Hebei Province. The Japanese Consumers' Cooperative Union said the dumplings produced on June 3 last year contained organophosphate pesticide called dichlorvos with a high concentration of 110 parts per million in the dough and 0.42 ppm in ingredients -- levels that affect consumers' health if they eat two pieces.

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Cabinet ministers meet over food poisoning incidents

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Health minister Yoichi Masuzoe, state minister in charge of quality-of-life policy affairs Fumio Kishida, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura and Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura attend a meeting of Cabinet ministers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 4 to discuss the recent poisoning incidents involving Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings.

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1,000 dumplings cooked on huge iron pan at festival

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Some 1,000 "gyoza" dumplings are cooked on a huge cast-iron pan during the fifth "National Goyza Matsuri" festival in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 4, 2014.

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Huge iron pan made for national dumpling festival

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Members of an organizing committee for the fifth national "gyoza" dumpling festival pose before a huge iron pan in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2014. Capable of making 1,000 dumplings at a time and manufactured in cooperation with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s local Yahata mill, the pan will be an eye-catcher in the festival to be held in the southwestern Japan city on Oct. 4 and 5.

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Kitakyushu to host "gyoza" dumpling festival

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Members of the organization committee for the 5th national "gyoza" dumpling festival to be held in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, in early October, promote the event at the Kitakyushu city hall on Sept. 5, 2014.

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Chinese man gets life over tainted dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A Jan. 19, 2014, photo shows the site where a food plant used to be in Shijiazhuang, the capital of North China's Hebei Province. Lu Yueting, a 39-year-old former temporary worker at the plant was sentenced Jan. 20 by the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court to life in prison after he admitted to poisoning frozen "gyoza" dumplings that made 14 people in Japan and China ill six years ago.

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Chinese man gets life over tainted dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A police vehicle believed to be carrying Lu Yueting, a 39-year-old former temporary worker at a food plant, leaves the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, the capital of North China's Hebei Province, on Jan. 20, 2014. The court sentenced Lu earlier that day to life in prison after he admitted to poisoning frozen "gyoza" dumplings that made 14 people in Japan and China ill six years ago.

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Chinese man gets life over tainted dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, the capital of North China's Hebei Province, on Jan. 20, 2014. The court sentenced later that day Lu Yueting, a 39-year-old former temporary worker at a food plant, to life in prison after he admitted to poisoning frozen "gyoza" dumplings that sickened 10 people in Japan six years ago.

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Fast food chain president shot dead in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows a restaurant of major fast food chain Gyoza no Ohsho in Kyoto on the night of Dec. 19, 2013. Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., which runs the fast food chain, was shot dead in Kyoto on the morning of the same day with the assailant at large.

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Tainted dumpling case

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows a courthouse in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, where the trial of Lu Yueting is being held, on July 30, 2013. The Chinese man is accused of poisoning frozen "gyoza" dumplings that sickened 10 people in Japan five years ago, triggering a scare over the safety of Chinese food products.

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Tainted dumplings case

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Lu Yueting, accused of lacing "gyoza" dumplings with a toxic chemical that led to high-profile food poisoning cases in Japan from 2007 to 2008.

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China safety boss raps media coverage of tainted dumplings

BEIJING, China - Li Changjiang, head of China's food safety watchdog, speaks at a press conference in Beijing on March 13. Li accused some sections of the news media of fuelling public anxiety in Japan over a food poisoning outbreak involving Chinese-made ''gyoza'' dumplings.

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Over 450 feel ill, gov't to do its utmost over food poisoning

SAITAMA, Japan - Two men at a cooperative association in Saitama, north of Tokyo, talk with member consumers over the phone on Jan. 31 about food poisoning involving gyoza deumplings imported from China. The number of people who have complained of illness after eating dumplings or other products made by a Chinese producer has reached 457 in 35 prefectures in Japan, while the government vowed utmost efforts to deal with the food poisoning.

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Over 450 feel ill, gov't to do its utmost over food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - A notice put up at a restaurant in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Jan. 31 tells customers it has stopped offering food products imported from China. The number of people who have complained of illness after eating gyoza dumplings or other products made by a Chinese producer has reached 457 in 35 prefectures in Japan, while the government vowed utmost efforts to deal with the food poisoning.

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Japanese taken ill after eating Chinese-made frozen dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows Tianyang Food Plant in Hebei Province which manufactured frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings suspected of having caused food poisoning in Japan.

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Chinese-made frozen food checked at Kyoto supermarket store

KYOTO, Japan - A health center officer checks Chinese-made frozen food at a supermarket store in Kyoto on Jan. 31 following the revelation the previous day that at least 10 people were taken ill after eating Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings.

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10 people suffer food poisoning from Chinese-made 'gyoza'

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Japan Tobacco Inc. and its subsidiary JT Foods Co. bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30 after reports that a total of 10 people have suffered food poisoning after eating Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings imported by JT Foods Co.

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Justin Trudeau And Wife At The Parkdale Public Market - Ottawa

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau pulls her son Hadrien Trudeau from behind a plexiglass barrier as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family order gyoza for lunch at a vendor at the Parkdale Public Market in Ottawa on Canada Day, Thursday, July 1, 2021. Photo oby Justin Tang/Canadian Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Justin Trudeau And Wife At The Parkdale Public Market - Ottawa

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau pulls her son Hadrien Trudeau from behind a plexiglass barrier as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family order gyoza for lunch at a vendor at the Parkdale Public Market in Ottawa on Canada Day, Thursday, July 1, 2021. Photo oby Justin Tang/Canadian Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cabinet ministers meet over food poisoning incidents

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Health minister Yoichi Masuzoe, state minister in charge of quality-of-life policy affairs Fumio Kishida, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura and Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura attend a meeting of Cabinet ministers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 4 to discuss the recent poisoning incidents involving Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings. (Kyodo)

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2 Japanese cities remain in rivalry over "No. 1 dumpling city" status

Hamamatsu city officials, along with the mascot of the Pacific coastal city, celebrate at the city hall after confirming government data on household spending immediately after their 8:30 a.m. release on Jan. 29, 2016. The data showed Hamamatsu retained the coveted mantle of "Japan's No. 1 'gyoza' dumpling city" in 2015, edging its archrival Utsunomiya, as households in Hamamatsu spent more on gyoza on average than those in Utsunomiya for the second year in a row. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ohsho Food Service to increase female regular workers to 50% by 2020

Naoto Watanabe, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., the operator of the Gyoza no Ohsho chain of Chinese-style restaurants, is interviewed by Kyodo News on Dec. 4, 2015. Watanabe said the company plans to boost the ratio of its female workers on the regular payroll, currently at 10 percent, to 50 percent by 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hamamatsu returns as Japan's biggest "gyoza" consuming city

Hamamatsu officials and members of a local association promoting the consumption of "gyoza" dumplings celebrate at the Hamamatsu city hall in Shizuoka Prefecture on Jan. 30, 2015, after the city regained its top status in Japan in terms of purchase of gyoza per household in 2014 following a one-year hiatus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dumpling-flavored instant noodle to debut

Undated photo shows an instant noodle pack flavored with "gyoza" meat dumplings to be launched by Acecook Co. on Sept. 7, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China safety boss raps media coverage of tainted dumplings

BEIJING, China - Li Changjiang, head of China's food safety watchdog, speaks at a press conference in Beijing on March 13. Li accused some sections of the news media of fuelling public anxiety in Japan over a food poisoning outbreak involving Chinese-made ''gyoza'' dumplings. (Kyodo)

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Japan badly shaken by pesticide-tainted 'gyoza' dumplings

OSAKA, Japan - Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings are removed from a store shelf in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 31. (Kyodo)

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New type of pesticide found in Chinese-made dumplings

TOKYO, Japan - A new type of toxic organophosphate pesticide has been detected in ''gyoza'' dumplings (shown in photo) made by Tianyang Food in China's Hebei Province. The Japanese Consumers' Cooperative Union said the dumplings produced on June 3 last year contained organophosphate pesticide called dichlorvos with a high concentration of 110 parts per million in the dough and 0.42 ppm in ingredients -- levels that affect consumers' health if they eat two pieces. (Kyodo)

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Pesticide detected in 6 packages of 'gyoza' dumplings

KOBE, Japan - This photo shows one of the six packages of Chinese-made ''gyoza'' dumpling on which police said pesticide was detected on Feb. 3. Police said the packages were produced on the same day as the one that caused food poisoning for a family in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture. Of the six, a hole was found in one package, they said. (Kyodo)

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Over 450 feel ill, gov't to do its utmost over food poisoning

SAITAMA, Japan - Two men at a cooperative association in Saitama, north of Tokyo, talk with member consumers over the phone on Jan. 31 about food poisoning involving gyoza deumplings imported from China. The number of people who have complained of illness after eating dumplings or other products made by a Chinese producer has reached 457 in 35 prefectures in Japan, while the government vowed utmost efforts to deal with the food poisoning. (Kyodo)

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Over 450 feel ill, gov't to do its utmost over food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - A notice put up at a restaurant in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Jan. 31 tells customers it has stopped offering food products imported from China. The number of people who have complained of illness after eating gyoza dumplings or other products made by a Chinese producer has reached 457 in 35 prefectures in Japan, while the government vowed utmost efforts to deal with the food poisoning. (Kyodo)

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Japanese taken ill after eating Chinese-made frozen dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows Tianyang Food Plant in Hebei Province which manufactured frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings suspected of having caused food poisoning in Japan. (Kyodo)

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10 people suffer food poisoning from Chinese-made 'gyoza'

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Japan Tobacco Inc. and its subsidiary JT Foods Co. bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30 after reports that a total of 10 people have suffered food poisoning after eating Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings imported by JT Foods Co. (Kyodo)

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Chinese-made frozen food checked at Kyoto supermarket store

KYOTO, Japan - A health center officer checks Chinese-made frozen food at a supermarket store in Kyoto on Jan. 31 following the revelation the previous day that at least 10 people were taken ill after eating Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings. (Kyodo)

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10 people suffer food poisoning from China-made 'gyoza'

CHIBA, Japan - Photo, released by the Chiba DENKO NEWS prefectural government, shows a package of Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings. The health ministry said on Jan. 30 that a total of 10 people have suffered food poisoning, with one of them in a serious condition, in Chiba and Hyogo prefectures after eating the imported dumplings. (Kyodo)

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1,000 dumplings cooked on huge iron pan at festival

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Some 1,000 "gyoza" dumplings are cooked on a huge cast-iron pan during the fifth "National Goyza Matsuri" festival in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 4, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Huge iron pan made for national dumpling festival

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Members of an organizing committee for the fifth national "gyoza" dumpling festival pose before a huge iron pan in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 16, 2014. Capable of making 1,000 dumplings at a time and manufactured in cooperation with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s local Yahata mill, the pan will be an eye-catcher in the festival to be held in the southwestern Japan city on Oct. 4 and 5. (Kyodo)

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Kitakyushu to host "gyoza" dumpling festival

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Members of the organization committee for the 5th national "gyoza" dumpling festival to be held in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, in early October, promote the event at the Kitakyushu city hall on Sept. 5, 2014. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

Gyoza dumpling restaurant head Junichi Ehara (R) hands a takeout gyoza meal to a customer at the restaurant in Tokyo on May 5, 2020, under an extended nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Gyoza" dumplings

Photo taken on Nov. 5, 2017, shows pan-fried "gyoza" dumplings (L) and boiled dumplings served at Utsunomiya-Minmin, a gyoza restaurant in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cooking robot for convenience stores

Photo shows a robot that can cook "gyoza" dumplings at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies known as CEATEC in Chiba on Oct. 16, 2018. Japanese convenience store chain operator Lawson Inc. displayed the robot as part of a futuristic store setting. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cooking robot for convenience stores

Photo shows a robot that can cook "gyoza" dumplings at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies known as CEATEC in Chiba on Oct. 16, 2018. Japanese convenience store chain operator Lawson Inc. displayed the robot as part of a futuristic store setting. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo