There’s much more to yakitori than grilled chicken on a stick, though that is, at first glance and by name, the long and short of it. One of Japan ... and raw octopus with wasabi.

Yakitori — In Japan (and increasingly around the world ... takoyaki is traditionally filled with bite-sized pieces of octopus ...

But the simmering nage (broth) that you bathe the duck in reminds me of yakitori bars all over Japan. The cooking technique for the duck can be used to great effect in other recipes too ...

Torikizoku, a yakitori chain with more than 600 locations in Japan, opened its first U.S. location in Torrance on January 24, 2025. Torikizoku is best known in Japan for its affordable flame ...

Torikizoku Holdings, which announced the plans, smells an opportunity to enter the American market as yakitori starts to become a widely recognized Japanese food in Los Angeles.

It’s not that I’m hungry. Japan’s ancient sport, it turns out, goes with yakitori the way American baseball goes with hot dogs. Why? Because a wrestler loses if he touches the earthen ring ...

Torikizoku in Torrance is the first American branch of a yakitori chain with 600 locations in Japan — which is terrific and a great honor for the South Bay. It’s also more than a little ...

The 5.4-kilogram "record-size for Japan" octopus is seen in a photo provided by the Himeji City Aquarium. HIMEJI, Hyogo -- A huge octopus caught in June off the coast of the western Japan city of ...