It wasn’t long ago that Doraemon, Japan’s magical anime cat, appeared as a traditional wagashi sweet, which are designed to be eaten during formal Japanese tea ceremonies as a sweet counterpart to the ...

A rapt audience watches in silence as a delicate confection in the shape of a flower blooms in the experienced hands of a wagashi master. Junichi Mitsubori, a third-generation wagashi (Japanese ...

Introducing tea sweets called wagashi. They captivated Travel Channel host Andrew Zimmern in 2012, when he turned the spotlight on “my friend Renaud and her delightful little wagashi” in his top five ...

After touring all over the world—including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok, New York City, L.A., Sydney, Paris—to convey the charm of wagashi, Junichi Mitsubori landed in Vancouver and held a performance ...

When former private tutor Kelsey Lee learned the art of making the traditional Japanese dessert called wagashi, she wanted to teach others how to craft it. And that’s exactly what she did. Walking ...

Japanese confection wagashi is one of the few desserts in the world that reflects the seasonal changes. SAKAI CITY, Japan – One of our first assignments in the Sakai-ASEAN week 2014 was our ...

The British have scones, the Japanese have wagashi. These traditional tea confections are a far cry from the crumbly biscuits most Westerners associate with tea; colorful and dainty, each wagashi is a ...

There's nothing sweeter than being introduced to a foreign culture than through tea and confectionary. And screenings of films about the beverage and traditional sweets in Kyoto next week are aimed at ...