Dessert in Japan

Japanese don't eat dessert the way people in other countries do. Dessert is not part of a typical Japanese meal. But they do like fresh fruit in season. They might have a mandarin orange, a few strawerries, a small piece of melon, or a few slices of apple at the end of a meal. You could call that their dessert.

There are many western-style desserts available in restaurants. They have ice cream or sherbet available for dessert. And you can get cakes and pies and similar things in bakeries. But they'd probably have that kind of thing with coffee or tea - not after a meal.

There are many kinds of traditional Japanese sweets, like sweet bean paste and sweet rice-flour cakes. But they eat them with tea, or when guests come, for example. They're more for between meals than for dessert.