Katsuo-bushi (bonito flakes) are one of the key ingredients in Japanese cuisine, for preparing dashi stock. They are made ...

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In a country renowned for its food, Osaka is particularly noted for its culinary offerings. Join chef Saito Tatsuo as he ...

On an early spring ride around the base of this extensive mountain range, we meet an artisan making traditional snowshoes, a ...

A women's soccer team was created to energize an aging community. The team's top striker has built strong friendships with ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru spoke by phone with US President Donald Trump on Friday. Ishiba expressed his expectations for productive negotiations in the upcoming ministerial-level tariff ...

Reuters news agency says one of the images US President Donald Trump showed at the White House as evidence of white persecution in South Africa was actually taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A record surge in the price of rice drove Japan's consumer inflation higher in April. The country's staple crop nearly doubled in price compared to the same month a year earlier.

Japan's Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, will visit Laos in November. The trip is expected to be her first official overseas visit.

East Japan Railway Company says broken overhead wires were the likely cause for the trouble that led to a full suspension of the Yamanote Line loop railway service in central Tokyo on Friday morning.

North Korea's law-enforcement authorities have reportedly begun procedures to investigate and restrain senior officials of a shipyard in relation to a failed warship launch earlier this week.

Japan's new agriculture minister, Koizumi Shinjiro, says he will take steps so rice from government stockpiles can be sold at retail stores from early June in the 2,000 yen range, or about 14 to 21 ...