Halloween season has begun at Universal Studios Japan, and special limited-time Pokémon Halloween food and drink items ... Grape jam is hidden in the center, which adds a balancing sweetness to the ...

A simple frangipane filling tucks into layers of puff pastry in this French cake traditionally served for Epiphany. For a taste of Paris in the middle of winter, there’s nothing more classic ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

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As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

A person is seen choking on a rice cake in this illustration provided by the Tokyo Fire Department. TOKYO -- As people have more opportunities to eat rice cakes during the year-end and New Year ...

Using approximately 6 metric tons of sticky rice produced in northern Japan's Tohoku region, known for its rich taste, around 40 workers are preparing and selling "kagami mochi" round rice cakes ...

Workers prepare sets of kagamimochi, decorative glutinous rice cakes, made to celebrate the New Year. Okurayama Aoyagi, a long-established seller of Japanese confectioneries in Kohoku Ward, Yokohama, ...

The Miyawaki Forest Technique, invented by Japanese botanist and plant ecology expert Professor Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s, is the inspiration for micro-forests worldwide. These diverse ...

Start the year off with an old-fashioned favorite. The dark brown sugar is what gives this cake its characteristically deep, molasses flavor. If all you have is light brown sugar, it will work in a ...