Every year, Japan’s national police and emergency response services issue public warnings to be careful when eating mochi rice cakes, the sticky, sweet traditional delicacy served to celebrate the new ...

A sticky New Year's tradition has reportedly claimed another life in Japan -- but if the elderly woman was the only casualty, it marks an improvement on previous years. Japan Today reports that a ...

Soft tofu pouches filled with mochi rice cake, creating a comforting and traditional Japanese dish with rich texture and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lunar New Year is celebrated with different foods depending on the culture, but across the Asian diaspora, there is one food in ...

Do you need a quick and nutritious snack that's easy to make? Give these chewy rice cakes a try. All you need is a microwave ...

As the excitement of the New Year starts to wear off and many of us, weary with our unattainable resolutions, have abandoned them in a fit, this one Asian country yet again comes face to face with one ...

They are round, sweet...and deadly. Japan's festive treat known as mochi has killed two people who suffocated on the rice cakes traditionally served on New Year's Day. Seven others were listed in ...

Shuji Mitsuishi is standing in the centre of his Japanese grocery, giggling like a schoolchild. Fists locked into a makeshift mallet, he’s pretending to strike an imaginary object. His wife, Reiko, is ...

Nursery school children in northern Japan have tried their hand at making sticky rice cakes, or mochi, which will be used as New Year's decorations. At a nursery school in Aomori Prefecture's Hirosaki ...

Since I started working at BA, I’ve worried that my colleagues suspect I’m operating for the mochi lobby (“Big Mochi”), pushing the “Mochi Agenda” at every opportunity with recipes, story ideas, and ...