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Japanese patissiers win top awards at Paris chocolate fair

PARIS, France - Susumu Koyama, a Japanese patissier and owner of a confectionery shop in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, is honored for the third time with one of the top awards at the Salon du Chocolat global chocolate fair in Paris on Oct. 31, 2014.

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Japanese patissiers win top awards at Paris chocolate fair

PARIS, France - Morihide Yoshida (C), a Japanese patissier in Paris, wins one of the top awards at the Salon du Chocolat global chocolate fair in the French capital on Oct. 31, 2014.

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Young patissiers show skills after winning int'l contests

NIIGATA, Japan - Mirina Ueno (L), an instructor at a culinary and confectionery school in the city of Niigata, and student Midori Matsuda demonstrate their skills at the school on April 26, 2014, after winning separate international confectionery contests.

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Hokkaido high school team wins national cake contest

Photo taken on Sept. 22, 2015, shows "Magnum Opus," the cake produced by a three-member team from Hokkaido Mikasa High School that won a national contest for high school students aspiring to become patissiers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido high school team wins national cake contest

Members of a Hokkaido Mikasa High School team -- (from L) Misaki Taguchi, Takayo Hamada and Ikumi Kaneko -- strike a pose in Mikasa, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, on Nov. 5, 2015, after winning a national contest for high school students aspiring to become patissiers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese patissiers win top awards at Paris chocolate fair

PARIS, France - Morihide Yoshida (C), a Japanese patissier in Paris, wins one of the top awards at the Salon du Chocolat global chocolate fair in the French capital on Oct. 31, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Chef and Kazutoshi Narita

Kazutoshi Narita (center) poses for a photo with the patissiers of Sapporo Grand Hotel and Sapporo Park Hotel, who will be working with the executive chefs of Sapporo Grand Hotel and Sapporo Park Hotel to develop special winter sweets in November 2018. The three of them pose for a commemorative photo at the press conference announcing the project.