Authorities are reminding parents and teachers of the danger of giving children beans and nuts at setsubun events on Feb. 3, warning that it could lead to fatal choking. The Consumer Affairs ...

Preparations for the Setsubun festival on Feb 2 are underway at the famed Rinnoji Temple in Niko. Fortune beans are being blessed for the bean throwing ritual known as 'mamemaki'. The centuries-old ...

NARITA, Chiba Prefecture--Fewer beans were tossed out by fewer celebrities at this year's Setsubun ceremony at Naritasan Shinshoji temple here on Feb. 3, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued ...

Here’s where you can throw some beans. If you want to trace the origins of all this legume-throwing, this is where to start: Sensoji was the first place in Japan to hold a large-scale Setsubun ...

Takuto, the restaurant of sushi master Takuya Watanabe, invites you to eat his delicate fish handrolls standing up. The ...