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An employee serves a customer shopping for pork at a black pork shop in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China, on Jan. 16.

BUSINESS / Markets

Feb 2, 2026

Disgruntled with Western pork, China wants to go back to black pigs

For older buyers in particular, black pork evokes childhood, when black-haired ?pigs were ?raised at home and slaughtered around Lunar New Year.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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