“Neo wagashi,” a modern twist on traditional Japanese sweets, is gaining popularity with its photogenic appearance that is perfectly suited for today's social media era. Long-established shops and ...

On the Autumnal Equinox 122 years ago, Haiku poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) ate “ohagi” sticky rice balls coated with sweet red bean paste while sick in bed with spinal caries. He penned this poem: ...

Major anime franchises including One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach are unveiling distinctive new merchandise for 2026, from edible Devil Fruit wagashi to character-themed sneakers and exclusive art ...

Emma Orlow is a former editor and reporter for the Northeast region at Eater, who focused primarily on New York City, where she was born and raised. She covered restaurants, bars, pop-ups, and the ...

Traditional Japanese teatime sweets, known as wagashi, are in a league of their own. While western desserts are often equated with excess and indulgence, the dainty wagashi instead calls for quiet ...

Rice flour, sweet beans, sugar, and water. These are the humble materials used to make wagashi—painstakingly crafted, bite-size tea snacks once prized by the Japanese imperial court. Practitioners who ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Japanese confection wagashi is one of the few desserts in the world that reflects the seasonal changes. SAKAI CITY, ...

In the last few years, the English term “sweets” has come to be used in Japanese as a hold-all term referring to all kinds of cakes and confectionary. But it seems a shame to lump the Japanese wagashi ...

When the owners of Benkyodo, the mochi and manju store that stood for 115 years in the heart of San Francisco’s Japantown, announced in May 2021 that they intended to close the shop and retire, ...