JAPAN
One of the facilities in the Kikkoman factory.

(Photo by Takahiro Takiguchi/Stripes Japan)

Check out Japan’s leading soy sauce brewer, Kikkoman, which produces many low-salt soy sauce products all the while preserving the centuries-old way of brewing it.

Takahiro Takiguchi is a writer based in Yokosuka, Japan. Takiguchi covers travel, food and culture stories for Stars and Stripes Japan. Follow along as Takiguchi takes readers to less crowded destinations around the mainland, you might also catch him out and about recording Speakin’ Japanese lesson videos for Instagram.

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