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 ...

Officials urge cutting the mochi into smaller pieces, chewing slowly and close supervision to prevent suffocation A cherished New Year’s tradition turned deadly in Japan’s capital as a Tokyo Fire ...

Mochi is to Japanese people what latkes are for Jewish people, or black eyed peas for Southerners — food associated with celebrating winter traditions. Made by pounding cooked glutinous short-grained ...

Two people in Japan have died and seven others had to be taken to hospitals after choking on mochi, a sweet rice cake that can prove difficult to swallow if not thoroughly chewed. In just the first ...

Mochi — the soft, chewy Japanese rice cake often wrapped around ice cream or sweet red bean paste — is easier to make than ...

In a small shop nestled in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighborhood, a small but popular Japanese confectionary shop called Fugetsu-Do is turning 120 years old. Though this is a remarkable achievement — ...

A community in western Japan is celebrating the Lunar New Year by making decorations with twigs adorned with white ornaments ...

A grim New Year's trend continued in Japan as four women choked to death on traditional rice cakes and 12 other people were hospitalized, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported. The women who died were ...