IntegriCulture’s Yuki Hanyu: ‘We’re a cellular ag infrastructure company, not just a cultivated meat company’
Enter IntegriCulture’s CulNet system, which deploys a central tank containing cells that will be used to make cultivated meat (muscle,…
Japan Looks To Attract Vegan Tourists With More Plant-Based Food
It’s been found that 89.5 percent of foreign visitors to Japan say that eating Japanese food is a primary motivation…
Webinar : Japan, paving Its Way to a Regulatory Environment to Promote the Alternative Protein Industry (June 15, 2023)
Keller and Heckman is delighted to invite you to join the fourth installment in our Alternative Protein Webinar Series, Japan:…
Japanese Academic and Corporate Partners Launch Cultivated Meat Consortium
This week, a group of Japanese academic and corporate partners announced the creation of the Consortium for Future Innovation by…
Japan’s Prime Minister Embraces Cultivated Meat As Part of the Country’s Sustainable Future
“We will develop the environment to create a new market, such as efforts to ensure safety and the establishment of…
Japanese researcher pushes the boundaries of lab-grown ‘real’ meat
“It didn’t taste like beef, though it had umami and was chewy,” Takeuchi, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s…
IntegriCulture scores $7m for ‘outside-factor-free’ cell ag
IntegriCulture, a Japanese startup striving to bring down the costs of cellular ag, has raised $7 million in Series A-plus…
Michelin Star Japanese Chef Launches Startup to Create Cultured Meat
But if you’re Chef Shimamura Masaharu of Japan, someone who writes that in high school he wondered whether to “to…
Aleph Farms and Mitsubishi Bring Cultivated Meat to Japan
We’re excited to announce that we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Corporation’s Food Industry Group to bring…
Japan: Regulatory Updates on Shaping the Cultivated Meat Market
The first move is the government initiative in establishing the Food Tech Research Group. The Food Tech Research Group, including…