Call it risotto, pilaf, Japanese rice, or soupy rice; the technique remains the same.

White Japanese rice paper covered the walls and the floors were a rough, unpolished white marble.

Japanese rice balls are lunch box staples.

Japanese rice is a thick-bodied, soft-grained variety.

For more information, see Japanese Rice.

Japanese Rice with Mushrooms and Chicken

Prices are such that the export market is minimal for Japanese rice, seen in Asia as a luxury food.

Japanese Rice and Cabbage Salad

Sake, the Japanese rice wine, contains a variety of oligosaccharides and glucosides produced by fungal enzymes during the brewing process.

Japanese Rice with Chestnuts

Chestnuts, Japanese Rice with

Teriyaki sauce is a Japanese sauce made from mirin (sweet Japanese rice wine), soy sauce, sugar, and (often) sake.

Japanese rice farmers were among the first to use derivatives, in the eighteenth century, to insure themselves against the risk of a poor crop.