"Due to shortages, sales of butter are limited to one item per customer." From spring until summer this year, signs like this were posted in the dairy sections of supermarkets and food stores around Japan. In fact, butter shortage notices have been a recurring sight for the past several years.
thanks for this one banzaitokyo, I hadn't understood the whole thing till there about why on earth this shortage root. ah! economy, politic and ... weather have so many influence