Photo taken on Oct. 31, 2024, shows a traditional Japanese "ryotei" restaurant Kawaramachi Izumiya, in Gifu, central Japan, which serves ayu narezushi sweetfish. (Kyodo) Kawaramachi Izumiya ...

and eating at traditional Japanese ryotei restaurants. The allure of dishes such as narezushi, the earliest form of Japanese sushi made by fermenting fish in rice, served at the establishments ...

More foreign visitors have started taking tours of factories dedicated to the production of soybean paste, said to have been a favorite of the country's first shogun in the 17th century, Tokugawa ...