My first foray into Japanese sour candies was during a solo trip to my local Japanese market in New York City. I had gone ...

Some of her sweets are made only for events — like the warabi mochi, which gets hard after a day — but she will ship her baked apricot sweets, which can last for 10 days, in nine-piece boxes ...

This sweet bun, called "Chinese fruit," served as the original wagashi (formal sweet), part of a Buddhist monk's kaiseki-ryori (multicourse dinner) and chanoyu (tea ceremony).

Many of Japan’s present-day favorite wagashi – sweets – have their origins on Kyushu. One of these is castella, a Portuguese-inspired pound cake.