Michihiro Kono, president of Yagisawa Shoten Co., stands at a his factory under construction Friday, March 5, 2021, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan. Just a month after a tsunami as high as 17 meters (55 feet) smashed into the city of Rikuzentakata, soy sauce maker Kono inherited his family's two-century-old business from his father. Later this year the ninth generation owner of Yagisawa Shoten Co. will open a new factory on the same ground where his family started making soy sauce in 1807. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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