Michihiro Kono

Tsunami-proof: Japanese soy sauce rises from ruins of 2011 disaster

March 10, 2015Food

No one expected the Yagisawa Shoten soy sauce company to come back after the 2011 tsunami, in which its inventory was washed away by 55-foot-high waves. But a good deed led to a discovery — and the soy sauce’s return.

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