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POTATOES

Simple, affordable and versatile, the humble potato is now one of the world's most important crops. But its origins have long puzzled scientists.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 1, 2025
Study reveals potato¡¯s secret tomato heritage
Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern-day spud around 9 million years ago.
This sweet and salty dish owes much to both early modern merchants and 20th century Tokyo University students.
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Oct 22, 2023
Recipe: Deep-fried sweet (and salty) potatoes
Sweet potatoes are an iconic Japanese treat. Originally from Central America, they came through China in the 17th century to southern Kyushu.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Jan 13, 2022
Recipe: Okinawan-style sweet potato hash browns
Add an unusual splash of color to your breakfast with these hash browns made from purple sweet potatoes.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Nov 20, 2021
Recipe: Loaded twice-baked ikura potatoes
With an injection of umami and a slew of Japanese fixings, your plain old potatoes will never need to be dull again.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Oct 9, 2021
Recipe: Umami-rich potato salad
Makiko Itoh revisits the classic Japanese potato salad with an umami-rich, creamy version that has a bit of a spicy kick.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Oct 17, 2020
As the weather cools, make this hearty nimono simmered stew
The taro has been a staple starch for centuries, and today it¡¯s grown all over Japan. Here, it rounds out a fall stew perfect for lunch or dinner.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Jul 18, 2020
Potesara: Â鶹´«Ã½ ¡®most familiar and loved salad¡¯
A recent Twitter controversy about potato salad has brought the much-loved dish back into the national spotlight.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
May 4, 2019
Japan Times 1944: Potatoes to be grown on Diet Building lawn
Neat squares of Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn will dot the spacious lawn of the Diet Building grounds in a movement not to leave any cultivable land idle. The work on the first plot in the Diet grounds was tackled by 45 attendants of the Diet Building on Wednesday. Another plot of 100 tsubo will be dug up and planted by the end of May.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Apr 22, 2017
The storied history of the potato in Japanese cooking
The main clue as to when potatoes first entered Japan comes from its name in Japanese, jaga-imo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2017
Spud shortage in Japan makes potato chips a hot commodity
Demand for potato chips surged in Japan this week, with products on offer for six times their retail price online after snack maker Calbee Inc. halted the sale of some of its most popular chip brands.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Aug 9, 2014
Hot potato
Salaryman #1: This doesn¡¯t taste much like uni (sea urchin).
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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