You’ll recognize Chikara Mochi, a Japanese rice cake shop ... kiku (chrysanthemum), which is pink; and yuki (snowflake), a white cake with the image of a snowflake pressed into the top.

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 ...

Two people died in Japan after choking on mochi to celebrate the new year. Despite officials warning the population about the choking hazard posed by the popular rice cake that is traditionally ...

Mochi, a traditional New Year’s food in Japan, has made headlines again this year after it apparently led nine people to die from choking. A chewy cake made from pounded rice, mochi is eaten ...

Traditional New Year consumption of mochi rice cakes leaves 13 in serious condition In this Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 photo, a boy eats a freshly pounded rice cake, or "mochi," wrapped in a sheet of ...

Fifteen people were taken by ambulance to hospitals in Tokyo on Monday after choking on “mochi” sticky rice cakes, a traditional New Year dish, with two of them later pronounced dead.

Every year, Japan’s national police and emergency response services issue public warnings to be careful when eating mochi rice cakes, the sticky, sweet traditional delicacy served to celebrate ...