The National Police Agency and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency are urging elderly people to be careful when eating mochi rice cakes during the New Year holidays. The appeal is made every year ...

Emily Anderson, a curator at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California, told "CBS Sunday Morning" last month that eating mochi is a huge tradition on New Year's Day ...

told "CBS Sunday Morning" last month that New Year's Day is the most important holiday in Japan, and the rice cake delicacy is an integral part of celebrating. "Eating mochi is a really important part ...

TOKYO -- Can eating "mochi" rice cake and "daifuku" mochi filled with sweet bean paste help you avoid the restroom? Recently, a curious piece of advice has been circulating on social media as a ...

The most recognizable rice cake in the West is Japanese mochi, but there is a wide and wonderful world of Asian rice cakes, all possessing symbolic meaning in the context of Lunar New Year.

As I cast about for what to prepare, I remembered the first time that my grandmother served me a savory snack of pan-fried mochi with shoyu and nori. I was 7 or 8 years old, and at first ...

On Jan. 1, a man in his 80s went into cardiac arrest after choking on mochi while eating a bowl of “zoni,” a traditional New Year soup, at his home in Hino. A man in his 70s was rushed to a ...