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Well, they do, but it may not necessarily be the correct way. There is in fact a proper way to eat with chopsticks, and even some Japanese adults — two in three people in their 30s, to be ...

The first morning at the firm sailed by smoothly enough, but then came lunch. ... metal Korean chopsticks and the pointier Japanese ones that require precise control.

Indeed, Japanese life begins and ends with chopsticks. As a symbolic rite of passage on their 100th day, newborn babies are presented with rice and fish and a pair of chopsticks — though not ...

Chopsticks are a mainstay of dinner tables in Japan and throughout Asia. Japanese people have been using them since they were small children—that doesn't mean, however, that they've been using ...

The correct use of chopsticks is not just a matter for the Japanese dinner table, as Alan Cummings from London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) explains.

In Japan, chopsticks are a cultural instrument, universally used and understood for the role they play. But for disabled people who may have limited movement in their hands, or missing fingers ...