Contrary to popular perception, the Japanese fermented rice drink is versatile enough to suit a range of dishes you might not have expected ...

Niigata-produced Koshihikari rice supplied by Kamo Organic Rice Growers Co-op, an organization of professional rice farmers who have been producing specially cultivated rice since 1988, primarily in ...

Workers prepare sets of kagamimochi, decorative glutinous rice cakes, made to celebrate the New Year. Okurayama Aoyagi, a ...

"Forty years ago I came to Japan because it was close to number one in GDP... it was booming," the biotech scientist told AFP ...

This includes the Hokuriku Shinetsu region to the north, where the prefectures of Fukui, Ishikawa, Niigata, and Toyama boast some of Japan’s best seafood, rice, and sake, while also offering ...

What's the best rice cooker for 2025? Whether as a side dish or a meal staple, perfectly cooked rice is one of the most versatile -- and enjoyable -- foods you can make. There are countless ways ...

"Forty years ago I came to Japan because it was close to number one in GDP... it was booming," the biotech scientist told AFP at Kameda's headquarters in Japan's rice heartland of Niigata.

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In northern Niigata Prefecture, we'll see the old ways of living as we try spicy daikon radish rolls and fluffy manju buns, go gill fishing, see cat houses made from rice straw, and a lovely old ...

1 in GDP (gross domestic product)... it was booming,” he told AFP at Kameda’s headquarters, in Japan’s rice heartland of Niigata. But at some point “Japan thought ‘we have everything now ...

Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s ...