Over recent years, the chewy rice cakes have killed and hospitalized hundreds of people in Japan, where it is eaten to ...

Japanese officials say this is a common occurrence with elderly people during the holiday season that can be prevented with ...

There are traditional New-Year foods eaten in many countries and this smooth, sticky mass of sweet rice is said to attract ...

Two people died in Japan after choking on mochi to celebrate the new year. Despite officials warning the population about the ...

I never expected to fall down a rabbit hole about Japanese Christmas cakes. But here we are, and I’m completely charmed. A Japanese Christmas cake is traditionally a single style of cake: milk sponge ...

NINOSHIMA, Japan — Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small island started making the treat that has thrived in its new ...