Japan Restaurants Raise Prices, Revise Menus as Chicken Costs Stay High in 2026
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Updated · The Mainichi · Jun 27
Japan Restaurants Raise Prices, Revise Menus as Chicken Costs Stay High in 2026
3 articles · Updated · The Mainichi · Jun 27
Summary
Restaurants and food manufacturers across Japan are changing menus or lifting prices as chicken—long treated as a cheap staple—remains unusually expensive.
Chicken and egg costs have stayed stubbornly high, squeezing operators that had tried to shield customers and preserve signature dishes.
That pressure is now making those holdouts harder to sustain, raising the risk that more everyday meals in Japan will cost more or be reformulated.