We've just become the number two player in Japan - we think we could become number one by the end of next year.

What does this say about Japanese people's belief in their "delicate palates"?

A New York-style, family-run pizza place would destroy Domino's' cardboard garbage, and show the Japanese what pizza is really like.

This country is screaming for such a themed place, and Japanese people would eat it up (no pun intended). Maybe if immigration, and the TPP become things it could happen.

Domino's not THAT bad. Pizza Salvatore in tokyo tries to take them on with quality but takes an hour to get yur pizza a coverage sparse.

Pizza Hut is not doing so well I think. Of course every other time I go there, they are out of the crust I want, and even my second choice too. Really turns me off.

Pizza-la is okay I think. My foreign friends feel the same. For some reason, most Japanese I know love it. And I don't really think Dominoes is an improvement, but I would welcome having some more choice.

A local chain closed down a few months back. Best delivery pizza I ever had in Japan and while my foreign friends agreed, my Japanese gal didn't. I talked to a girl who used to work there. She told me that while Pizza-la used frozen crust, this chain made crust from scratch. No wonder I liked it. But what in the world is wrong with the Japanese palate that they seem to like the frozen stuff better?

Anyway, good luck Dominoes. I hope you expand to my neck of the woods.

No, it would just be in competition with all the other food you can get in Tokyo, including many excellent pizza restaurants. And it's a bit arrogant to imply that the Japanese need to know what pizza is really like when there are so many places that make the Neapolitan version and do it very well.

I'm sorry that you lack the vision, man. Japanese people love foreign gimmicks, and they'd eat up an "Angelo's," or a "Louis'." I've been to many a Japanese pizza place, ones known for their pizza, and they don't do it nearly as well. And they are usually far more expensive for far less food.

If you can tell me a spot that serves pizza half as good as New York's please tell me and save me the 13hr plane ride.

And claiming that the Japanese don't know what real pizza is not a proclamation of cultural superiority/inferiority, so save do me a favor and save it.

claiming that the Japanese don't know what real pizza is not a proclamation of cultural superiority/inferiority, so save do me a favor and save it.

Yes it is. The Japanese pizza market is a very big one. Look at the combined figures for Pizza-La, Dominos and Pizza Hut. Therefore it's not like they don't know Pizza and that it's something foreign to them - it's a thriving domestic market. The fact that Pizza-la is number one over foreign brands like Dominos and Pizza Hut shows that the Japanese know what they like in pizza. Claiming that 'your' pizza is better than 'their' pizza just says that you consider your pizza culture to be superior, simply because you don't like their taste in pizza.

New Yorkers. Sure, their pizza gotta be "the best," because pizza was invented in New York! Obviously....Drrr....

I gotta say...I lived in Manhattan for more than 10 years, and more often than not, those mirror-lovin' dummies don't know squat about what they're talking about! For every good pizza pie in NY, there's 10 stores selling pieces of shi....er...substandard pizza....

I think you'll find that the best pizza is actually in Australia ;) I worked in a pizzeria for almost 10 years and I have to say - I've yet to taste anything that comes close in Japan.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-sideshow/italy-awards-world-s-best-pizza-maker-title-to-australian-chef-221636955.html