{"id":502173,"date":"2026-05-25T18:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/502173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:46:34","slug":"the-shrinking-monochrome-future-of-japans-war-ravaged-food-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/502173\/","title":{"rendered":"The shrinking, monochrome future of Japan&#8217;s war-ravaged food industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/food-beverage\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food &amp; Beverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Potato chips face crunch, ketchup turns transparent as raw material costs rise<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260522Kagomeketchupbottle\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Kagome is switching to partially\u00a0transparent packaging for its ketchup after being notified that supplies of white ink were\u00a0unstable. (Kagome)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; With raw material, labor and logistics costs rising, Japan&#8217;s food and beverage industry is increasingly opting to shrink the size of its products to reduce the burden of passing on price increases to hard-pressed consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food &amp; Beverage Potato chips face crunch, ketchup turns transparent as raw material costs rise Kagome is switching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,518,299,19,4286,17,38770,11814,16293,218215],"class_list":["post-502173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-food","tag-future","tag-ie","tag-industry","tag-ireland","tag-japans","tag-monochrome","tag-shrinking","tag-war-ravaged"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116636706198379457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}