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Japanese allergens

Japanese Food

Egg, Milk, Wheat, Buckwheat, Peanut, Shrimp, Crab, Walnut

Japan requires packaged foods to identify nine specified allergens, including cashews added in 2026, while twenty more remain recommended. Restaurants are outside the mandatory system, so a menu or staff answer cannot provide the same level of information as a packaged-food label.

Kaori Miyata