My quest had begun a few weeks earlier over goat hot pot in Vietnam. I was on vacation, eating dinner with my parents, their Vietnamese tutor, Mai Lan, and her husband of a few months.

Many Japanese people are checking their incense stocks to make sure they are prepared for Obon. A Japanese Buddhist custom, 盆 Bon (or お盆 Obon) takes place for three days in the middle of August, at ...

“I think anybody who’s over the age of 18,” he added, “should be able to make their own decisions with the incense they purchase.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Sands, 46, already has won round one of the pot vs. incense dispute. Sands was arrested in August 2012 and charged with manufacturing and possessing fake pot, but the charges were ultimately ...

Now the incense specialists are back again, this time with a new scent that promises to be even more popular than any of their past releases, as this one comes with the aroma of Japanese sake. And ...