KOBE, Japan -- A private equity firm backed by the world's top luxury group, LVMH, has acquired a majority stake in Kisshokichi Holdings, which operates a major chain of Kobe beef restaurants in Japan ...

While nearby Osaka, aka “Japan’s Kitchen,” is far more famous for its food scene, Kobe is known—perhaps unsurprisingly, given the number of foreigners who came through its port—for its ...

A5 Kobe is seen as the highest and directly correlates to A5, but the letter and number are just the Japanese grading system. Any program in Japan that creates high-quality beef could be graded as A5.

On a visit to Japan and staying with friends there, someone suggested that since we have some interest in food (which is like saying Donald Trump has some interest in money), perhaps we’d like to try ...

Real Kobe beef comes from the black Tajima breed of Wagyu (literally, “Japanese cattle”), raised under strict agricultural oversight in Hyogo Prefecture region of Japan.

It’s the great Kobe beef contretemps of 2016. Can “Kobe” mean beef from somewhere other than Japan’s Kobe region? Does it even matter? In his new book, “Real Food/Fake Food,… ...