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 ...

Tyson Foods Inc., the world’s largest meat company, will not see a significant benefit until sometime next year from Japan’s decision to ease a ban on U.S. beef imports, the company and analysts said ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Fast-food chain Yoshinoya says it will stop serving its trademark beef-and-onions rice dish until Japanese authorities lift a ban on U.S. beef imports. Restaurant chain Royal Host is ...

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 ...

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You may not have known that Brazil is one of the largest exporters of beef in the world. Many developed countries such as the ...

For serious food lovers, traditionally bred Japanese beef is one of the most coveted ingredients — much richer, fattier and more thoroughly marbled than even the highest grades of Western steak. It is ...

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 ...

TOKYO — A top politician mourned its passing and a truck driver started a brawl when his order was refused. Office workers and laborers mobbed restaurants at lunchtime for a final mouthful. The cause ...