Japan’s Yoshinoya puts ostrich on the menu and in skin care line

TOKYO — Japanese gyudon beef pot chain operator Yoshinoya Holdings is boosting its ostrich business, creating a skin care line using the bird's oil and putting its meat on limited restaurant menus, eyeing efficiently raised animals as a future source of profit. .

“We will establish the ostrich as an option that can bring health to both people and the Earth,” Yoshinoya Holdings President Yasutaka Kawamura said at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday to announce the company's new ostrich venture.

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