Each day, shoppers make their way down aisles lined with signs written in kanji and hiragana, filling their baskets with green tea, seafood from Tokyo¡¯s Toyosu fish market and strawberries from Shizuoka.
Such a scene would be mundane in Japan, but increasingly, American consumers stateside are doing the same, transporting themselves to Japan through their regular weekday grocery shopping.
Japanese supermarkets in the United States, especially in California, have been growing in numbers ¡ª and in size.
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