The wait is over: chef Marc Spitzer, of Manhattan’s famed BondSt restaurant, has opened his long-awaited Long Island venture, ...

High up in the Japanese Alps, the only sounds I hear are birdsong and ... Rooms feature tatami matting, futon beds with ...

When a news release came to my email recently from Sally Hamilton, who organizes Santa Barbara’s Toba (Japan) Sister Cities exchange program, the memories ...

Waiting for them under the tree in our sunny Pasadena living room might be left-handed oven mitts or can openers, kitchen gadgets too mundane to pass as gifts for righties, but treasures to the ...

The Japanese government said Friday it will release a fifth of its emergency rice stockpile after hot weather, poor harvests ...

To hear the cook, writer and teacher Sonoko Sakai tell it, “1955 is the year my mother was liberated.” Several things ...

This marks the first time that stockpiled rice will be released specifically to stabilize supply. Japanese Agriculture ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation ...

Bags of reserved rice are seen piled up high in a warehouse ... with hopes for a price reduction effect. (Japanese original by Satoshi Fukutomi, Business News Department; video by Kaho Kitayama ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is all set to sign agreements on Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) for rice with the European Union (EU) to ensure enhanced export of rice from Pakistan to EU including husked brown ...