DealTime Japan, the shopping search engine that launched in October, says 
interest in buying food via the Web outstrips that in the U.S. Here is a 
sampling of the goodies found online:

ITEM                               PRICE       ONLINE SHOP

14 5.4-oz. bottles of unfiltered   $32.40      Yasai Club Olive
apple juice from Aomori, Japan's               (www.tol.ne.jp/olivemart)
best apple-growing region

1 kg (2 bunches) of purple grapes  $25.00      Fruitsmarket.com
                                               (www.fruitsmarket.com)

The Fish Egg Gift Set: 500 grams   $81.50      Kita no Sakanaya-san
each of cod fish roe, salmon roe,              (www.kitanosakanaya.co.jp)
and herring roe

High-grade marbled beef            $4.15 per   Yakuniku.com
                                   3.5 ounces  (www.8929.com)

50 farm-fresh eggs                 $26.85      Ishikawa Prefecture
                                               Noryoku Machi "Seiaguri"
                                               (www.rakuten.co.jp/isaika)