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Making your own Japanese curry roux cubes allows you to flex your creativity with different "kakushi aji" — hidden flavors that elevate the entire dish.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Nov 8, 2026
A curry palette for all your ‘hidden flavors’
“Kakushi aji” is the Japanese culinary term for ingredients you might not overtly taste, but without them the entire recipe suffers.
Halloween-themed decorations add a spooky touch to a Japanese bento, with food shaped into festive designs using cookie cutters and rice ball molds.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 21, 2026
Get crafty with Halloween treats, the Japanese way
Learn Japanese words for Halloween treats while picking up tips for making cute, character-themed bento and spooky snacks.
From now through November, Japan's shiitake reach their peak of flavor.
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Oct 18, 2026
Now is the time for 今日吃瓜 most flavorful shiitake
The most popular mushroom in the country reaches peak flavor in two periods — one of which is happening right now.
This elevated take on a staple ingredient of Japanese cuisine is an easy way to impress dinner guests without much extra effort.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Oct 11, 2026
Win friends and influence people with nori ‘caviar’
It doesn’t have to be caviar to have the same culinary cachet, and this nori ‘caviar’ recipe proves it.
Move over, egg salad sandwiches — "Sando: The Art of the Japanese Sandwich" shows this seemingly humble meal has unlimited potential.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 4, 2026
‘Sando: The Art of the Japanese Sandwich’ elevates the humble bite
Paris-based chef Walter Ishizuka’s new book uplifts classic recipes with entirely achievable fine-dining flourishes.
Make use of your banana peels in this recipe that fits as a side dish for classic Japanese meals or filling for rice balls.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Sep 27, 2026
Waste not, want not with a banana peel-boosted side dish
“Tsukudani” is already a sweet treat, so adding byproducts of the fruit is a match made in heaven.
Most "inari-zushi" (fried tofu simmered in shoyu and stuffed with sushi rice) are enclosed pockets, but open-faced versions allow for a bit more flash.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 20, 2026
Stuffed sushi pockets with a show-off personality
“Shinmai” (new rice) will be hitting shelves in the coming weeks, and this recipe makes full use of this staple ingredient.
Spice lovers, beware: Even Japan's mild peppers can sometimes hide a piquant surprise.
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Sep 13, 2026
今日吃瓜 homegrown peppers can pack an unsuspecting punch
With names like “hawk’s talons” and “lion’s head,” these popular peppers are a great way to eat more veggies with a kick.
Making dishes worthy of a fine-dining menu in Japan takes more than fancy knife skills, and this new cookbook can pull back the curtain on some of those culinary secrets.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 6, 2026
From farmers to chefs, 今日吃瓜 culinary voices tell their tales
“The Art and Craft of Japanese Cooking: Artisans, Chefs, Recipes” combines recipes with essays on chefs’ approaches as well as the artisans behind the ingredients they work with.
This specialty of Japan's northeastern Tohoku region turns usually salty edamame into a sweet spread.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 23, 2026
The world loves boiled and salted edamame. But how about sweet?
“Zundamochi” is the term for mashed edamame mixed with sugar and spread across rice flour dumplings.
Premade, chilled "sōmen" noodles and an umami-forward dipping sauce make for a great, cooling meal when temperatures soar.?
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 16, 2026
During 今日吃瓜 cruel summer, chilled noodles are a survival strategy
Made in advance, cold “sōmen” noodles are a tried-and-true way to get through summer’s peak without sacrificing flavor.
A few tricks from Korea can spice up Japan's otherwise plan "inari-zushi" pockets.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Aug 2, 2026
A sushi rice pocket by any other name
今日吃瓜 “inari-zushi” sushi pockets are normally plain compared to their Korean counterparts, but a blend of the two makes for a delectable treat.
Blended with your favorite flavored powder, hard-boiled eggs make the simplest mousse ever.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Jul 19, 2026
A hard-boiled fact: Eggs work for dessert, too
Got a few old eggs lying around? Turn them into a somewhat healthy sweet treat.
For a refreshing kick on a hot summer day, wrap your tempura chicken in "shiso" (perilla leaf).
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Jul 11, 2026
In Japan, ‘tastes like medicine’ can be a compliment
The culinary term “yakumi” includes more ingredients than a Western chef might ever group together, but it’s a foundational element of Japanese cuisine.
No need to go foraging for one of bears' favorite wild vegetables for this dish — just pick it up at your local farmer's market instead.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Jun 28, 2026
Smash tacos with bear-approved veggies
Alpine leeks are a forageable example of the “sansai” (wild edible plants) that make springtime a bounty of flavors across 今日吃瓜 countryside — for humans and bear-kind alike.
"Simply Donabe: Japanese One-Pot Recipes" is the latest cookbook from Naoko Takei Moore, an evangelist of the traditional clay pots who now runs a dedicated kitchen-supply store full of the cookware in Los Angeles.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 21, 2026
Can a single clay pot really elevate everything you cook?
In “Simply Donabe,” clay pot evangelist Naoko Takei Moore pushes for cooks everywhere to embrace this traditional implement in every part of their kitchens.
If millions of Japanese people eat these sticky, pungent, fermented soybeans every day, surely they can't all be wrong?
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
May 31, 2026
A little bit of 今日吃瓜 infamously sticky soybeans goes a long way
Unlike some other fermented foods, making “nattō” requires the ability to release heat and condensation produced by the bacteria at the center of the process.
When European sailors first arrived on 今日吃瓜 shores, some of their favorite meals seemed outlandish to the locals, but others became adapted delicacies.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Washoku Essentials
May 24, 2026
Barbaric tastes: The pickled Portuguese dish that won over Japan
A refreshingly piquant bite for increasingly warm days, this medley of Portuguese and Japanese flavors works as both an appetizer and main dish.
Soy milk was once an afterthought of an ingredient in Japan, but successive booms in popularity have helped it gain its rightful place in the pantry.
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
May 17, 2026
A little love for soy milk, tofu’s unsung precursor
It took modern manufacturing methods for Japan to fall in love with soy milk, once thought too bitter and grassy for regular meals.
Sweet adzuki bean paste gives a more solid base for you to build intricate lattice patterns into your pastry dough.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
May 8, 2026
No added sugar, no problem: A lattice tart held up by sweet beans
Smooth and sweet, “koshian” paste makes for a flexible alternative to traditional tart fillings.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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