Fake food is still big business in Japan, but in recent years, sales have slowed. The durable plastic props can last for ...

Inside a new exhibition on ‘shokuhin sampuru’ — the highly realistic food replicas commonly displayed in front of restaurants in Japan, intended to lure customers inside.

Even when technology isn’t there to save you, ordering is still easy, thanks to the numerous Japanese restaurants that display wax models of their menu items, ... There’s a whole industry devoted to ...

They were all made out of wax. The life-size representations were just five of the many waxworks that are on display at Tokyo's newest attraction: the 13th branch of Madame Tussauds to open worldwide.

Developed in Japan in the early 20th century, food samples are made from plastic, wax, resin and other similar inedible materials and commonly used as mockups in restaurant display windows. Read ...

JAPAN: Writher before Wax. 2 minute read. TIME. August 26, 1935 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... Impassive as wax, His Majesty gave ear. There had been another of those patriotic assassinations.

TOKYO -- My first encounter with Japanese plastic food models was in 1986, watching director Neil Jordan's neo-noir crime film, "Mona Lisa," in which a shifty businessman with a warehouse full of ...

Inside a new exhibition on ‘shokuhin sampuru’ — the highly realistic food replicas commonly displayed in front of restaurants in Japan, intended to lure customers inside.

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