Lekh Raj Juneja is not your average rice cracker company CEO. Born in India, he came to Japan to study fermentation science and ended up leading a Japanese pharmaceutical firm. Last year he was ...

the head of rice cracker giant Kameda Seika, said he worries his adopted country has lost its edge. "Forty years ago I came to Japan because it was close to number one in GDP... it was booming ...

Read more: 25 Most Popular Snacks In America Ranked Worst To Best Rice crackers were initially introduced in Japan by the Chinese travelers and traders during the Tang Dynasty, who brought the ...

MURAKAMI, Niigata Prefecture--A sixth body was found in the ruins of a rice cracker factory here following a fire that broke out late at night on Feb. 11 and burned until nearly noon the next day ...

MURAKAMI, Niigata Prefecture--Five people perished and one is still missing after a late-night fire at a rice cracker factory here that operated around the clock. The blaze broke out around 11:45 ...

Rice is in short supply at supermarkets in Japan. During late August, an NHK crew visited a store in Tokyo that usually sells about 10 varieties. But all it had in stock were 16 bags of a single ...