The Japanese fast food chain Sukiya is temporarily closing its nearly 2,000 locations after a rat was found in soup a customer ordered on Friday.

The company acknowledged that a rat was found in a miso soup served ... The company, which is owned by Japanese food industry giant Zensho Holdings, operates nearly 2,000 outlets in Japan and ...

Sukiya, the country's biggest beef bowl chain owned by dining giant Zensho Holdings ... at one of its locations in western Japan in January had contained a rat. Zensho shares fell as much as ...

Amid a year marked by closures in the U.S., a similar trend appears to be unfolding abroad.  This time, Japanese fast-food giant Sukiya is shuttering nearly ...

Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya temporarily closed nearly all its outlets after customers found a rat in miso soup and a cockroach in ... The company, owned by Japanese food industry giant Zensho ...

The company acknowledged that a rat was found in a miso soup served ... The company, which is owned by Japanese food industry giant Zensho Holdings, operates nearly 2,000 outlets in Japan and ...