No. of Japanese restaurants abroad triples in last decade to 187,000

The number of Japanese restaurants outside Japan increased more than threefold over the past decade to around 187,000 in 2023 as the country’s eatery chains expanded worldwide, a recent survey by the farm ministry showed. The number increased around 20 percent from the previous survey in 2021, with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries attributing some of the growth to increased i…