Mochi is a popular food in Japan, especially during the New Year's holiday. Tokyo Fire Department officials advise cutting mochi into small pieces and chewing thoroughly before swallowing.

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 ...

This is mochi, or rice cake, formed into a round shape to represent a mirror (kagami), one of the three sacred treasures, and displayed at New Year as an offering to the New Year gods (toshigami).

Mochi Bagh, once the vibrant heart of Lahore's political and cultural gatherings, where iconic leaders such as Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Iqbal, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto ...

It’s a huge, super soft, oversized cat tree to them — and all they want to do is scratch it up. But in case you didn’t want your furniture turned to shreds (duh!), Amazon is selling easy-to ...

Mochi is a sticky, sweet traditional delicacy made of soft and chewy rice. Wikimedia Commons Mochi-related deaths have come to haunt Japan again. The delicious rice cake, which is an integral part of ...

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Dec. 20 marked the launch of Daily Draw, a new free-to-play game in the Yahoo Sports app for U.S.-based users that gives fans a fun way to engage with each day’s marquee sporting event — every ...