Nothing, But Sugar’s name doesn’t really check out, but do their desserts pass the test? As a team of dedicated wordsmiths and vocabu-liers, we here at SoraNews24 believe that the proper use of language is an important responsibility. So ordinarily we might cluck our tongues, gnash our teeth, and shoryuken the ceiling at the name of Nothing, But Sugar , a shop we visited in the town of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture . Not only does that comma have no business being there, Nothing, But Sugar actually has more than just sugar on offer.
However, we’re not only sticklers when it comes to language, but also sweets fans with a ravenous hunger for desserts, and so we’ll give Nothing, But Sugar a pass on its linguistic oddities, since its store is filled with cinnamon rolls . A little geographic background: Yokosuka was one of east Japan’s first major ports, and is also the site of a large U.S.
Navy base. That makes the town a bit of a cultural melting pot, especially on Dobuitadori , or Dobuita Street , which is lined with shops selling Americana and vintage U.S.
fashions, as well as Yokosuka’s representative apparel, the sukajan (a style of embroidered silk baseball/bomber jacket), as well as hamburger joints and bars with a classic American aesthetic. Because of that, Dobuita is sometimes called “Japan’s closest street to America,” and as of 2021, it’s also home to Nothing But Sugar, a shop specializing in American sweets. Originally, Nothing But Sugar sold muff.