A father and son in Tokyo are continuing the centuries-old tradition of making tsukudani, a preserved Japanese food.

Although washoku has been enshrined as ‘traditional Japanese food’, it wasn’t popularised until relatively recently. Nullumayulife/Flickr, CC BY. Washoku is essentially an “invented ...

Ever wonder what exactly goes into an adorable Japanese bento box? Turns out, presentation and history have a lot to do with ...

American household, we always had certain staple sauces in our pantry. I would constantly watch endless bottles of soy sauce ...

Perhaps the most significant change in Japanese food tradition was the successful UNESCO Intangible Heritage bid of 2013, which saw washoku enshrined as a “traditional dietary culture”. The term ...

At first glance, Netflix's popular Japanese animation Delicious in Dungeon is a strangely food-obsessed dungeon-crawler fantasy tale. Upon a closer look, however, it reveals itself as a striking ...

"Traditional" Japanese food such as bentos and ramen have more complicated origins than most people think. They are great examples of how food is highly political, says a lecturer from the ...