Wild game cuisine named 'Dish of Year' for 2014

TOKYO, Japan - TV script writer Kundo Koyama (far L) joins other people to sit at a table for deer meet dishes at the office of Tokyo's Gurunavi Inc., a restaurant guide portal operator, on Dec. 4, 2014, at an event marking the selection of wild game cuisine, known as "gibier," as the inaugural "Dish of the Year" for 2014.

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