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McDonald’s Japan is bringing Mushroom Risotto Balls this autumn and people couldn’t be angrier

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If we’ve learnt one thing from the vast number of articles on this site, Japanese fast food chains like McDonald’s come up with some really good ideas to keep people coming to their restaurants. Regardless of whether they turn out delicious or disgusting, inventions such as the luxury burger line-up, avocado burger, and tofu nuggets are hard to ignore.

It’s gotten to the point that people in Japan may have grown too accustomed to the nice things served at fast food outlets. For example, McDonald’s recently announced their new autumn special – Mushroom Risotto Balls – and online reaction could largely be described as righteous indignation with comments like “only an idiot would eat that!”


The Mushroom Risotto Balls are a blend of four kinds of mushroom (maitake, bunashimeji, king oyster mushroom, and white mushrooms) cooked in a brown rice risotto with a rich sauce and fried up in a crispy batter. Sounds scrumptious, doesn’t it?

stats

• 87,900 Number of travelers from the U.S. who visited Japan in June—a record for the month—according to the JNTO
• 74.8 Percent of Japanese people who say they oppose the rise in the consumption tax planned for October 2015
• ¥20 billion Fines levied by the Chinese government on Japanese automobile parts makers for violating antitrust laws—a record penalty

ONWARD, HO!

• McDonald’s Japan announced that it has banned smoking in all 3,135 of its restaurants.
• Officials at the defense ministry say they plan to establish a “monitoring force” in outer space by 2019.
• The Japanese government bestowed names on 158 remote islets that “define the country’s territorial waters.” Needless to say, the move drew a rebuke from China.
• Executives at Toshiba say they’re ready to ship the first batch of vegetables grown in a former floppy-disk factory in Yokosuka.

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Baseball / Japanese Baseball

Dragons lefty Yamamoto sets NPB record for oldest winning pitcher at age 49

Kyodo

NAGOYA – Forty-nine-year-old Masahiro Yamamoto became Japanese baseball’s oldest winning pitcher with five scoreless innings in the Chunichi Dragons’ 6-0 victory over the Hanshin Tigers on Friday.
At 49 years, 25 days, Yamamoto (1-0) won his first and only start of the season at Nagoya Dome, surpassing the old mark of 48 years, 4 months set by the Hankyu Braves’ Shinji Hamazaki in 1950.
The lefty threw 90 pitches, giving up five hits and a walk. He struck out two.
In the major leagues, Jamie Moyer became the oldest pitcher to win a game in 2012 at 49 years, 150 days.