Often referred to as sour plums or Japanese apricots, Umeboshi plums are round, dried, and pickled fruits that have a distinctive sour flavor. These special plums are harvested in the summer ...

During the Meiji Era (1868-1912), Japan’s Imperial Army and Navy, which seldom saw eye to eye on anything, both decided to adopt umeboshi, highly salted pickled Japanese plums, as a key item of ...

😉 Plums can be divided into two main groups: Most fresh plums found in supermarket produce bins are the Japanese variety, ...

Last year, the plum wine category was added to a French competition for Japanese sake for the first ... using only locally grown “Nanko-ume” plums. Workers put freshly hand-picked, unripe ...

In addition, red, white and pink plum blossoms are also blooming at Kyoto Gyoen National Garden, Koshoji Temple and Kandaijin Shrine. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the ...