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Made by pounding cooked glutinous short-grained mochi rice, mochi is a sticky Japanese food eaten as a sweet or savory treat.

Fifteen people were taken by ambulance to hospitals in Tokyo on Monday after choking on “mochi” sticky rice cakes, a traditional New Year dish, with two of them later pronounced dead.