I found this bar in a small Japanese convenience store in my neighborhood. Meiji is available in milk chocolate as well as this semi-sweet format. This is also the first Japanese chocolate I've tried, though it is clearly not in the "gourmet" market. The bar reminds me more of the mass-market semi-sweets bars from Hersheys or Cadbury. The label is in Japanese, so I could not find a mention of percentage of cocoa in the bar.
At that point of measurement, Meiji BLACK is an acceptable and approachable. Very rich in cocoa flavor, with a noticeable sweetness. There is no bitterness, but a certain amount of pucky tartness from the heavy cocoa flavor. Not bad, though also not great. 6.0
www.meiji.co.jp
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I found another review of Meiji BLACK at:
Doug's Chocolate Republic Meiji Black
I chuckle because we gave the bar the same rating (I hadn't seen this site's rating before I gave mine).
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