GIFU, Japan/KYOTO/KOBE, Japan -- Sake breweries in Japan's regional areas are focusing on foreign tourists for growth, pulling in travelers with tours and such gimmicks as a tasting room that takes ...

While nearby Osaka, aka “Japan’s Kitchen,” is far more famous for its food scene, Kobe is known—perhaps unsurprisingly, given the number of foreigners who came through its port—for its ...

WELCOME TO THE NOEVIR STADIUM KOBE!!! The beautiful home of Vissel Kobe in Kobe, Japan is the site of the first game of ...

A5 Kobe is seen as the highest and directly correlates to A5, but the letter and number are just the Japanese grading system. Any program in Japan that creates high-quality beef could be graded as A5.

On a visit to Japan and staying with friends there, someone suggested that since we have some interest in food (which is like saying Donald Trump has some interest in money), perhaps we’d like to try ...

It’s the great Kobe beef contretemps of 2016. Can “Kobe” mean beef from somewhere other than Japan’s Kobe region? Does it even matter? In his new book, “Real Food/Fake Food,… ...

Real Kobe beef comes from the black Tajima breed of Wagyu (literally, “Japanese cattle”), raised under strict agricultural oversight in Hyogo Prefecture region of Japan.

The aftermath of the 7.2 earthquake that devastated Kobe in 1995, killing 6,433 people, was Japan's version of Hurricane Katrina -- a relief effort so poorly handled by authorities that it enraged ...

A tsunami warning was issued for northern Hyogo Prefecture, of which Kobe is the capital and which faces the Sea of Japan, at 4:22 p.m. on Jan. 1 following the magnitude-7.6 quake.