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Buddhist believers reach out to Tokyo homeless

TOKYO, Japan - Volunteer workers belonging to the Japanese branch of the Tzu Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese humanitarian organization, distribute soup kitchen meals, including curry and miso soup, to homeless people in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2013.

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Free soup for women

TOKYO, Japan - Ajinomoto Co. offers free miso soup and clear Japanese soups chiefly for woman at the Dashi Cafe in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2010, in an effort to promote ''dashi'' Japanese soup stock.

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Free soup for women

TOKYO, Japan - Ajinomoto Co. offers free miso soup and clear Japanese soups chiefly for woman at the Dashi Cafe in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2010, in an effort to promote ''dashi'' Japanese soup stock.

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Expert creates Japan's 1st corbiculae institute

MATSUE, Japan - Mikio Nakamura, a retired marine scientist, has established the Japan Corbiculae Research Institute, the first of its kind in the country, in Shimane Prefecture, to restore the catch of shijimi, a small clam known in English as corbiculae. Shijimi, often found in ''miso'' bean-paste soup, are dying off in Lake Shinji in the prefecture.

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Australian model Miranda Kerr promotes fermented food

Australian model Miranda Kerr holds up a cup of miso soup during an event to promote fermented food in the city of Omachi, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on June 21, 2016. Japanese miso maker Marukome Co. appointed her as a "fermented food ambassador" to help promote miso and other fermented food products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan promotes farm products from Sado Island

Visitors taste miso soup produced with soybeans from Sado Island in the Sea of Japan off Niigata Prefecture, at an event square of the Japan Pavilion at the food-themed world exposition in Milan on Oct. 21, 2015. Sado became the first location in Japan to be designated as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese food introduced at Expo Milano 2015

Tomoko Fujimoto (2nd from L) from Yokohama explains to visitors how to make "Misomaru", a roll of fermented soybean paste with filling, at the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 on May 21, 2015. They enjoyed "miso soup" made from the roll. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman tastes "miso" soup at Japanese pavilion in Expo Milano 2015

A woman tastes "miso" soybean paste soup at a restaurant inside the Japan Pavilion in Expo Milano 2015 on May 1, 2015. Lots of visitors flocked to the pavilion which opened the same day, displaying Japanese cuisine and other food culture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese firm shows "miso" soup server at Expo Milano pavilion

A Japanese cook uses a "miso" soybean paste soup server on May 1, 2015, at the Japan Pavilion in Expo Milano 2015 under way in the Italian city. The server was made by Marukome Co., a food company based in Nagano, central Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo snapshot: "Burg Napoli" of Tokyo's Nishiarai coffee shop

Photo taken at Sylvia Nishiarai coffee shop in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2015, shows popular combo plate "Burg Napoli," or a hamburger steak plus Neapolitan spaghetti with salad, rice, miso soup and coffee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitors try Japanese cooking at Expo Milano event

Visitors try their hand at making balls of "miso" soybean paste for use in instant soup during an event at the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano in Milan, Italy, on Oct. 21, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo landscape: Traditional rice bowl served on shrine premises

Photo taken on July 22, 2015, shows a traditional "Fukagawa-meshi" set meal that features a bowl of rice with deeply fried clams and onions in "miso" (soybean paste) soup and another bowl of rice cooked with various ingredients at a restaurant on the premises of the Tomioka Hachimangu shrine on the east side of the Sumida River in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese food introduced at Expo Milano 2015

Tomoko Fujimoto (2nd from L) from Yokohama explains to visitors how to make "Misomaru", a roll of fermented soybean paste with filling, at the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 on May 21, 2015. They enjoyed "miso soup" made from the roll. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Free soup for women

TOKYO, Japan - Ajinomoto Co. offers free miso soup and clear Japanese soups chiefly for woman at the Dashi Cafe in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2010, in an effort to promote ''dashi'' Japanese soup stock.(Kyodo)

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Free soup for women

TOKYO, Japan - Ajinomoto Co. offers free miso soup and clear Japanese soups chiefly for woman at the Dashi Cafe in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2010, in an effort to promote ''dashi'' Japanese soup stock.(Kyodo)

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Girls having a meal

Five women are having a meal. Each is involved in a different activity such as eating cooked rice, sipping miso soup, eating side dishes and pouring tea from a porcelain teapot. The woman on the left seems to be a maid. ==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐49‐0]

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Women carrying dishes

A woman is shown standing up with a portable meal table while another woman is about to stand up. The meal set on the table consists of miso soup, three kinds of vegetables and cooked rice. A hanging scroll and flowers arranged in a pot are visible in the tokonoma alcove behind them, and a gekkin lute is placed against the wall. This type of room is called an ozashiki.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐37‐0]

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Onigiri

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Onigiri

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Boy carries meal at disaster area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A boy carries provided miso soup with pork in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 27, 2011. The area was hit hard by the March 11 quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Miso soup

Undated file photo shows a bowl of instant miso soup sold by Kyoto-based Mill Souhonsha Co. Miso soup is made by mixing miso fermented soybean paste and stock soup with some ingredients in it. The reduced-sodium miso soup in the photo contains Lyophyllum shimeji mashroom grown in the Tanba region in northwestern Kyoto Prefecture as one of its ingredients. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miso soup featuring namesake Evangelion protagonist

Photo taken on May 10, 2018, shows a package of a ready-to-eat miso soup product with an illustration of Shinji Ikari, the main character in the TV animation series "Neon Genesis Evangelion," pictured with Lake Shinji in Matsue, western Japan, in the background. The product uses seasonal clams from the lake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Expert creates Japan's 1st corbiculae institute

MATSUE, Japan - Mikio Nakamura, a retired marine scientist, has established the Japan Corbiculae Research Institute, the first of its kind in the country, in Shimane Prefecture, to restore the catch of shijimi, a small clam known in English as corbiculae. Shijimi, often found in ''miso'' bean-paste soup, are dying off in Lake Shinji in the prefecture. (Kyodo)