Storyline: The Japanese government is considering an early release of its rice reserves to address continuous price surges, ...

In response to the rising price of rice, retailers, restaurant chains and food-product manufacturers are taking steps to deal ...

Teikoku Databank, a research company that tracks historic changes in the cost of assembling a plate of Japan’s beloved curry rice, found that the cost of the dish hit an all-time high of ¥377 in ...

This is an extraordinary achievement for rice-based products in the world of whisky. Fukano Whisky was born by accident. In fact, it was originally born as shochu, a traditional Japanese distilled ...

Traditionally it was a by-product of making miso – as the ... so use it sparingly. Rice is the bedrock of Japanese cuisine, and with terms like ‘sushi rice’ and ‘sticky rice’ it can ...

Japan’s Shiraso Brewery prides itself on creating ‘uncommon flavours’ and fusing western innovations with the country’s ...

Called Kome-Dough, with kome meaning “rice”, this new doughnut champions ... sales since it first debuted as a limited-time product for three weeks in November 2023. Now, the chain is upping the ...

Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...

The Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that it seized around 398 kilograms of Kameda baby rice crackers from Japan ...

OME, Japan--Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing ...