The Japanese love their toast—and they’re willing to pay a premium to get the perfect slice, apparently. Shaped like a waffle maker, the clamshell gadget claims to create the perfect piece of toast by ...

It didn’t seem like toast (or as my two-year-old son calls it, “hot bread”) needed to be rethought. Sometimes it’s good to be proven wrong. In 2003, Gen Terao created the design firm Balmuda in Tokyo.

Very little thought goes into making toast. You put a couple slices of bread in a machine, push down the lever and in a couple minutes you have a half-decent breakfast. Gear Patrol’s very own home and ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. launched its bread oven in Japan last month retailing at $270. (Mitsubishi) Bread lovers who want to enjoy the “perfect” toast every morning may want this $270 toaster.

Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Whether a tiny start-up, a giant conglomerate or an investor whose interests straddle tech and ...

In Japan, a lot of prepackaged foods come in special pouches known in Japanese as “retort pouches.” These packages, which often contain food like curries, sauces, soups, and meats, can generally be ...

Whether a tiny start-up, a giant conglomerate or an investor whose interests straddle tech and breakfast, the same killer question eventually arrives: Should a company that manufactures a famously ...

Balmuda is teaming up with Kyocera and SoftBank on a new 5G smartphone Balmuda is teaming up with Kyocera and SoftBank on a new 5G smartphone Balmuda, a Japanese design company known for its stylish ...

Clad in faux-wood veneer, the gadget is meant to be used at the dining table, not the kitchen counter. Perfectly made toast isn’t just an obsession in Japan. It’s a business opportunity. Over the past ...

The Japanese love their toast—and they’re willing to pay a premium to get the perfect slice, apparently. Shaped like a waffle maker, the clamshell gadget claims to create the perfect piece of toast by ...

(Bloomberg) — Perfectly made toast isn’t just an obsession in Japan. It’s a business opportunity. Over the past few years, there’s been a quiet boom in the pursuit of expertly reheated bread, from ...