Over recent years, the chewy rice cakes have killed and hospitalized hundreds of people in Japan, where it is eaten to ...

Japanese officials say this is a common occurrence with elderly people during the holiday season that can be prevented with ...

More than a dozen workers at a traditional Japanese sweets shop in Fukuoka City, western Japan, are busy making mochi rice ...

Ozoni — Japanese mochi soup — is soothing and sustaining, a grounding meal for the first day of the new year.

Despite an annual warning from authorities, a deadly New Year's trend continued in Japan this week as two people died after choking on mochi — a doughy cake made from steamed sweet rice that 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 Day is often celebrated with traditional, symbolic foods across the world. Find out what makes this Japanese soup ...

When a chef says they put their blood, sweat, and tears into their work, we hope they don’t mean literally. Mochi masters may actually mean it literally. To create the sweet, chewy Japanese delicacy, ...

Today we are going to learn How to make Mochi ice cream!! Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made using a sweet rice flour ...

Mochi pounding is a way to welcome the New Year, with family togetherness at the heart of the tradition. A local family from ...

Two elderly men in Japan choked to death on mochi rice cakes as part of a New Year’s tradition that authorities have issued warnings about annually. Eating mochi on and around the New Year is supposed ...