From her TriBeCa shop, Saori Kawano has spent decades supplying chefs with knives and housewares, and teaching Americans ...

(Bloomberg) -- Food inflation in Japan is a hot topic for households managing monthly budgets — and increasingly for the central bank as well, as prices for staples including rice and cabbage soar.

The government is said to have set its first targets to boost spending on Japanese cuisine by visitors to the country and in overseas nations.