Around the world, people are eating certain foods on New Year's Eve, hoping to ensure that the upcoming year will be full of ...

Japanese Izakaya Akatsuki restaurant in Gardena makes soba noodles to-go for customers to enjoy their own Toshikoshi Soba.

Japanese, especially newcomers to Japan, many of the customs and traditions of New Year may seem hard to understand. New Year ...

Japan's “Oshogatsu “ or "Shogatsu," or New Year's celebrations, are deeply rooted in custom and have great cultural value. Beginning on January 1st and often continuing into the first few days ...

Many countries have New Year culinary traditions that have become deeply embedded in local custom over the centuries.

Here are three New Year's Eve food traditions from around the ... choose to add additional ingredients for taste. Japanese people have been eating soba noodles on New Year's Eve for nearly seven ...

Living in Hawaii, the traditions of the local people are so ingrained in many homes and you don’t need to be Japanese to ...

There’s eating toshi-koshi soba (year-crossing buckwheat noodles) at midnight and hatsumode (the first shrine visit), but have you ever heard of the Nenmatsu Jumbo Takarakuji or year-end jumbo lottery ...