japanese bento Japanese BENTO Hitomi Karakama Today, Japanese culture is well known in many countries. Of course, Japanese food or traditional culture has been popular. In fact, Japanese bento is also one of the popular Japanese cultures. THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Canadian newspaper and New York Times, American newspaper said about Japanese bento. In these newspaper, colorful bentos and recipes, interviews were featured. The bento is very similar to Japanese one. In the recipes, Japanese word was used directly. For example, onigiri or nori, kamaboko were used. That’s surprising! Why Japanese bento is famous? I researched about it. There are some reasons why a bento is famous. One is that Japanese bento is cute. Do you know “kyaraben” like