Shigekazu Takanashi Author

Shigekazu Takanashi is the owner of Ramen Rotas, a ramen restaurant in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. His YouTube channel Ramen Rotas has 280,000 subscribers and his most popular videos have over 2 million views. His dream is for everybody to eat his ramen at home!

Makiko Itoh, author of the Just Bento cookbook series and Real Japanese Cooking, has translated many Japanese works into English including Zen Wisdom for the Anxious, and Real Japanese Izakaya Cookbook. She now writes a monthly column on Japanese food for the Japan Times and her new compendium work, Real Japanese Cooking has just been published by Tuttle Publishing.