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☆ How Japanese black vinegar is made using a 3-year aging method
  + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Caroline Mishelle Aghajanian | Teresa Zhang | Amelia Kosciulek | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Sakamoto Kurozu, Inc. is a kurozu maker in the town of Fukuyama in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture. It follows a 200-year-old method to ferment and age the black vinegar in 52,000 clay pots. It takes one year until the vinegar is ready, but the best batches take three to five years. It takes at least a year until it’s complete, with some of the best batches aging from three to five years. Sakamoto Kurozu, Inc. is one of eight vinegar makers that haven’t changed the process.
☆ The US relied on a secret force of Japanese-Americans to win World War II in the Pacific — while their families were locked up at home
  + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Katie Sanders | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +17 min
Japanese-American Nisei soldiers at US Army Military Intelligence Service language school. Not many people know that we had Japanese-Americans fighting the Pacific war. The very first Japanese language school was started by the Army a months before Pearl Harbor. A US Army Nisei soldier gives water to a child in Okinawa. US Army Nisei soldiers interrogating a Japanese prisoner of war.
☆ Ryuichi Sakamoto, fighting cancer, livestreams what may be final concert
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Elaine Lies | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
TOKYO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Japan's Ryuichi Sakamoto, known for his electronic music, including the score for "The Last Emperor," on Monday finished streaming a concert that may be the last for the Academy-award winning composer, who is fighting stage 4 cancer. "My strength has really fallen, so a normal concert of about an hour to ninety minutes would be very difficult," he said. In 2014 he was diagnosed with throat cancer, which was cured after years of treatment. But in January 2021 he said he had been diagnosed with rectal cancer the previous year. In June 2022, he wrote in an essay that the cancer had spread despite multiple operations and was now Stage 4.
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