Annual study shows fewer ramen joints went bankrupt in 2025, but that doesn’t mean everything is fine and dandy for the industry.
2024 was a rough year for ramen restaurants in Japan, as research firm Teikoku Databank found 79 ramen restaurant bankruptcies in its annual study of the industry, the most ever since its first iteration in 2010. 2024 wasn’t an isolated case, either, as it marked the third year in a row of increasing bankruptcies.
Things are finally looking better, though, as Teikoku has just released the results of its 2025 study, in which ramen restaurant bankruptcies fell by 25.3 percent, to 59.
For the study, Teikoku Database counted ramen restaurants that had debts exceeding 10 million yen (US$65,000) and had filed…