Japan’s Awesome Snack Foods: A Little Ahead Of Our Time

As we write these words, we’re in your future: Japan is 14 hours ahead on the clock, such that its today is your tomorrow, so when we leave here, we will actually arrive back home two hours before we departed Tokyo. Sure, it may just be due to the International Date Line, but Japan has been perceived for decades as just a little ahead of the United States in certain regards – technology, culture, food – and though not too far to catch up with, perhaps beyond our will to do so. When it comes to snack foods, Japan clearly has us beat: from the specifics of its sweet and savory snacks to the ways that it distributes them to customers, we have a lot to learn and hopefully take away from what’s going on all across Japan these days.