It was an almost unthinkable decision for Yamada-udon, which sells 390-yen ($2.48) bowls of noodles and for which the slightest rise in cost requires acrobatic scrambling to stay in business.
It was raining hard in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district when I met Chow Ting, now 27, upon her arrival from Hong Kong in June 2019. She is better known to the West as Agnes Chow. Chow's bangs became ...