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In Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture, Mr. Shinichi Nakayama has been protecting the traditional Iruhama method of salt production for 50 years. 　 <Caption> Mr. Shinichi Nakayama, who has been making salt using the old Iruhama method; scenery of the salt fields and people working in the salt town of Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture; a statue of Michitaka Kume Eizaemon; Mr. Shinichi Nakayama taking care of his dog while naked; Mr. Shinichi Nakayama wearing a necktie at a meeting to build a shrine at the city hall; a father and son preserving the traditional salt making method; Mr. Nakayama and his son working all day from early in the morning. Mr. Nakayama and his son working all day from early in the morning, making an effort to produce good quality salt. Date of shooting unknown, release date: September 4, 1964.

Japan town sets world record in simultaneous rice ball making

Japan town sets world record in simultaneous rice ball making

Children take part in a rice ball making event in Sakaide, a salt producing city in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on May 17, 2015. Participants successfully set a Guinness World Record for the number of people simultaneously making rice balls at 668. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Brother-in-law of missing Kagawa woman and grandchildren nabbed

Brother-in-law of missing Kagawa woman and grandchildren nabbed

SAKAIDE, Japan - Masanori Kawasaki, 61, arrives at a police station in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 27 after he was arrested on suspicion of abandoning the bodies of a 58-year-old woman from the same city and her two granddaughters. He told police that he killed the three and dumped them in the mountains, the police said. (Kyodo)