Japanese convenience stores are great places to pick up an onigiri rice ball, but you’ll need some extra muscle to pick up the newest one at Lawson, which crams an entire bento inside it. Released on ...

I’ve been packing school lunches for 10 years, since my daughter started kindergarten. Early on, I found an online community of bloggers who wrote about how to create bento — the name for a ...

The YouTube recommendation algorithm is the devil’s handmaiden, but occasionally Satan comes through. A few days ago, the algorithm introduced me to the channel Imamu Room, a Japanese woman’s weekly ...

Happy December! Time to haul out the sweaters? No, it is time to run! In cities like New York, London, Singapore and Hong Kong, 42.195-kilometer marathons are returning after being canceled last year ...

When I was growing up in Tokyo in the ‘60s, we had bento day at school once a week. This meant Mother had to get up early and fix lunch for her five children. We were proud of her bento, which might ...

AKOMEYA Bento Marunouchi Building will be rebranding its lineup, centered around "onigiri" (rice balls) made with rice selected by AKOMEYA TOKYO from all over Japan and cooked in the in-store kamado ...

Main Dish: These onigiri have that little extra something that makes them so addictive... On the outside, it's simple sushi rice, but on the inside... an egg yolk marinated in soy sauce, still melting ...

Onigiri, or rice balls, have been a staple of Japanese bento boxes for centuries. Historians say onigiri have been eaten since the Yayoi period (300 BCE to 300 CE) when rice cultivation began. While ...

When I was growing up in Tokyo in the ‘60s, we had bento day at school once a week. This meant Mother had to get up early and fix lunch for her five children. We were proud of her bento, which might ...