Last weekend, after an impressive nine-year run, Manchester’s own Japanese Festival, or the Doki Doki, packed up for the last

Fruits Basket was a Japanese manga (comic) series that ran in Hana to Yume (a semi-monthly girls magazine) from 1998 to 2006

Japanese restaurant Sapporo Teppanyaki on Liverpool Road, Castlefield, is the place to escape the try hard, over-priced, gourmet burgers bigger than your face served on tree trunks or the tiny fine dining portions served on roofing tiles or in teacups.

A place overlooking the water where hearty tastes of the US collide head on with dishes that deliver on their eastern promise, Oxford Road’s Kitchenette is definitely one to watch

MM sinks its teeth into food-friendly multi-lingual comedy Menú Degustació.

Japanese international won Premier League in his debut campaign