When selecting a meat to cook with, the details of butchering understandably take priority. After all, you'll want to avoid buying the toughest cut of steak, and instead focus on tender, flavorful ...

In English, "Wagyu" translates to Japanese cow. Wagyu beef comes from a Japanese horned cattle breed that's typically red or black, according to the American Wagyu Association. Beef must come from one ...

TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese officials say they have found the country's first known case of mad cow disease. Japan's agriculture ministry said on Monday a cow has tested positive for mad cow disease in ...

TOKYO, Nov. 21 -- Japanese officials announced today that a second cow was infected with "mad cow" disease, the brain-wasting illness that has devastated herds in Europe but had not been detected in ...

Whether you're in a supermarket, at a restaurant, or at the butcher, you have more to consider than just the cuts of beef on offer. Many steaks receive their designations from the cattle breed they ...

You’ll notice that most of the steaks on this list below bear an A5 rating and have specific Japanese Kobe beef, American Wagyu beef or other A5 Kobe beef designations to distinguish why they are such ...

TOKYO - A dairy cow has tested positive for mad cow disease in the Chiba area of Japan, near Tokyo, the agriculture ministry said today, signalling the first case reported in Asia. However, ministry ...

“WAGYU IS NOT just meat. It’s all things that Japan is famous for: tradition and quality and conviction.” That is how a Western chef describes Japan’s fatty marbled beef. But to the government, wagyu ...

When Manabu Matsumoto took his fiancé to dinner at the Kisuke cow-tongue restaurant in the Japanese city of Sendai recently, the Tokyo couple faced 28 menu choices. Among them: mashed tongue, tongue ...

TOKYO -- Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday for a livestock ship that a survivor said sank with 42 crew members aboard during rough weather off a southern Japanese island, the coast guard said.