What makes Kobe beef so famous—and so expensive? In this deep dive, we take you from the legendary farms of Hyogo Prefecture ...

These carefully curated diets, combined with longer fattening ... Because of these stringent criteria, very few cows qualify to be rated as Kobe beef — fewer than 4,000 head of cattle make ...

In 2002, one Matsusaka cow sold for 50 million yen, or roughly $400,000. However, the best-known cut of wagyu is Kobe beef, which comes from the city of Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture and is made ...

Wagyu beef, which comes from the Japanese breed of cattle of the same name ... Wagyu, also known as Kobe beef, is an expensive cut renowned for its taste, tenderness and juiciness, and for ...