Wakayama Calls Soy Sauce Summit

[Mulboyne]

Kippo: 'Soy-sauce Summit' in Wakayama
Amid a global boom for Japanese food, soy-sauce producers from across Japan will gather for the 'first National Soy-sauce Summit' to be held Oct. 27-28 in Yuasa Town, Wakayama Pref. The town is said to be the birthplace of soy-sauce. The event is designed to publicize the appeal of soy-sauce, which has supported Japanese food culture, throughout the country and to the world...During the Kamakura Period in the mid-13th century, priest Kakushin of Kokokuji Zen temple in Kishu (now Wakayama) learned how to make Kinzanji miso (soybean paste) in China and the technique later spread to Yuasa Town. The liquid that settled at the bottom of a barrel while Kinzanji miso was being made is said to be the origin of today's soy-sauce...The meet will adopt a 'Summit Declaration' designed to encourage soy-sauce consumption and establish a 'Council of Soy-sauce-Producing Cities, Towns and Villages'...more...

[Greji]

Kippo: 'Soy-sauce Summit' in Wakayama
Amid a global boom for Japanese food, soy-sauce producers from across Japan will gather for the 'first National Soy-sauce Summit' to be held Oct. 27-28 in Yuasa Town, Wakayama Pref. The town is said to be the birthplace of soy-sauce. The event is designed to publicize the appeal of soy-sauce, which has supported Japanese food culture, throughout the country and to the world...During the Kamakura Period in the mid-13th century, priest Kakushin of Kokokuji Zen temple in Kishu (now Wakayama) learned how to make Kinzanji miso (soybean paste) in China and the technique later spread to Yuasa Town. The liquid that settled at the bottom of a barrel while Kinzanji miso was being made is said to be the origin of today's soy-sauce...The meet will adopt a 'Summit Declaration' designed to encourage soy-sauce consumption and establish a 'Council of Soy-sauce-Producing Cities, Towns and Villages'...more...

You really shouldn't post things like this because it is probably too much of a shock for the Sons of the Chrysthamum to learn more and more of their home grown delicacies that comprise the famous "Nihonshoku" actually came from China and Korea.