TOKYO -- A growing number of ramen purveyors in Japan are being forced to increase prices or go out of business altogether as pork production cuts in Europe drive up the cost of a signature topping.
A ramen restaurant along a major road in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, recently raised the price of a popular bowl made with homemade chashu roast pork to 1,080 yen from 980 yen (about $6.90 and about $6.30).
