Those who planned to buy their favorite Japanese home baker the "Gopan", for the holidays may be out of luck. The world's first kitchen appliance that makes bread out of rice finally went on sale ...

Thiruvananthapuram: The name 'Gopan Swami' gained widespread attention after his children put up posters in Neyyattinkara claiming that their father had attained 'Samadhi' (a deep state of ...

Sanyo’s GOPAN is set for an October 8th release in Japan at a price to be announced. Sanyo hasn’t yet revealed when or if the device will get a release outside Japan.

How did Japan come to be a wheat-obsessed nation that needs gimmicks like the Gopan to eat rice disguised as wheat flour? The story of Japan’s conversion from rice to wheat involves a long ...

The body of 78-year-old Gopan Swami, exhumed earlier for a post-mortem examination following legal and public scrutiny of his family’s claim of ‘samadhi,’ was reinterred in a grand religious ...

The Gopan comes in red and white, weighs about 11kg and is priced at about $615. Sanyo will probably resume accepting orders in April 2011. This video shows how the device works: ...

That might not sound like much, but it's enough to make the $612 GOPAN a massive best-seller in Japan and force the company to freeze sales until April so that production can catch up with demand.

Gopan was a head load worker linked to BMS, the union associated with the BJP. After retirement he became a “holy man” and set up a temple near his house. Swami is a suffix sometimes given to ...