She grew up eating different kinds of wagashi made by her grandmother every year as offerings to ancestors during the spring and fall in Kyoto, Japan, where she was born and raised. CITY OF FOOD: ...

A rapt audience watches in silence as a delicate confection in the shape of a flower blooms in the experienced hands of a wagashi master. Junichi Mitsubori, a third-generation wagashi (Japanese ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. Kamayakiyonaga is a confectionery shop in Kyoto, Japan, that has been making sweets since 1617. Today, it's run by 17th-generation owner Maegawa Kiyoaki. The shop ...

Kyushu, Japan (CNN) — There is a legend that a group of Portuguese monks were sailing to Macao when their ship hit bad weather and they landed in Nagasaki, Japan, instead. That accidental encounter ...