The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. Mochi-pounding at a shrine in Tokyo The resulting sticky rice ...

While traditional mochi cakes have been a celebrated part of Japanese culture for centuries, most Americans are more familiar ...

A "naked mochi making" event was held at Sengenji temple in the city of Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, early on the morning of December 4. It's a year-end event where locals pray for a good harvest.