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 authority's recommendation to stop testing imports of U.S. beef from young cattle for mad cow disease was a "very small step" in a process that was still too slow and cumbersome in ...

Japan confirmed its first human case of mad cow disease Friday following the death of a man who had symptoms of the fatal brain wasting illness. Health Ministry officials and experts from a ministry ...

TOKYO - Japan's health ministry says it has ordered more tests after a cow slaughtered for beef near the tsunami-stricken nuclear plant was found to have radioactive contamination slightly higher than ...

TOKYO — Japan suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacker today over its failure to remove cattle parts banned under a bilateral agreement, as officials here raised concerns about U.S.

TOKYO – Japan confirmed its first human case of mad cow disease Friday after the death in December of a man in his 40s who had shown symptoms of the fatal brain-wasting illness. Health officials said ...

Japan has announced its first cow with BSE, the first native-born case reported outside Europe. It probably results from the importation of contaminated British feed exports in 1990 and 1991. It is ...

Server Keiko Sato takes a tray of freshly grilled beef tongue at Kisuke, a restaurant that specializes in beef tongue in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on Oct. 22, 2014. Kisuke features beef tongue ...