Our northern Kanto reporters team up and head to Gunma for a look at this part of Japan that gets overlooked by tourists.
pork cutlet
West Japan pork cutlet chain has arrived in Tokyo, and it’s brought something unusual for the summer.
Masters of their crafts in Tokyo and Kyoto team-up for a very unusual, but very appealing, innovation.
We strip four pork cutlets down to their fighting weights and see who’s got the most meat inside.
Free refills are often part of the deal at tonkatsu joints, but usually not for the cutlets themselves.
The Kojima family’s pork cutlet bowl recipe is both startlingly innovative and really, really old.
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