If you are a hardcore fan of Kobe steak, you might be surprised to learn that for over 1,200 years, beef was banned in Japan. Eating meat was taboo after the arrival of Buddhism in the country in the ...

At San Diego's Animae, which bills itself as a "wagyu steakhouse," executive chef Tara Monsod only uses Japanese A5 wagyu ...

Omi Wagyu is part of the same elite group of Japan’s 'Sandai Wagyū' or 'Three Great Wagyu,' alongside Kobe and Matsusaka ...

U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer ate free samples of American beef Thursday at the first major Japanese supermarket to sell the meat after the lifting of a nearly three-year ban over worries about ...

TOKYO (AP) — Imported American beef in Japan has proved so popular it's topped the annual limits called “safeguards,” and the U.S. Meat Export Federation on Thursday urged Tokyo to raise the threshold ...

As Japan's Hikiniku To Come concept arrives in Manila, the authentic 'on-the-rice' hamburg experience can be enjoyed by beef and rice purists or those who enjoy a variety of condiments and sauces ...

Japan's food safety panel on Monday ruled that relaxing domestic cattle testing standards for mad cow disease won't put consumers at risk, raising the possibility that Tokyo will reopen its lucrative ...

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It’s been weeks since Japan ditched its import ban on U.S. beef and the first shipment went on sale, but American beef is nowhere to be seen at supermarkets here — except this nation’s five Costco ...

The Japanese tariff on U.S. beef has dropped gradually from 38.5% in 2019 to 23.3% this year as a result of the three-year-old U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, a prime example of the kind of free trade ...

U.S. beef exports to Japan are to resume soon under an agreement reached yesterday to ease a 10-month ban on the meat prompted by a case of mad cow disease in Washington state. Japan is to allow beef ...

Japan reinstates a ban on beef imported from the United States after a shipment from New York arrives with backbones. The Japanese prohibit beef parts connected to the central nervous system, citing ...