A Guide to Food Buying in Japan
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: Tuttle Pub
Published: August 2003
Language: jpn
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780804834728
Subjects: National & regional cuisine; Cooking; ASIA; Regional & Ethnic - Asian
First sentence: Some portions of food labels in Japan may be written in the Roman alphabet, called romaji in Japanese, but most labels are written in the Japanese writing system, which is composed of Chinese characters, or kanji, and two syllabaries, hiragana and katakana.