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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Ukita family: Sayo Ukita, 51, and her husband, Kazuo Ukita, 53, with children Maya, 14 (holding chips) and Mio, 17; in their dining room in Kodaira City, Japan, with one week's worth of food. The Ukita family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 180).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Sayo Ukita shopping at the supermarket. As might be expected in an island nation, Japanese families eat a wide variety of seafood: fish, shellfish, and seaweed of all kinds. In any given week, the Ukitas will eat at least a dozen different kinds of fish and shellfish, and three varieties of seaweed. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 183).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Sayo Ukita shops daily in the market area near the train station closest to her family's home in Kodaira City, Japan, outside Tokyo. There are many small specialized shops and a few small to medium sized supermarkets. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A fish vendor in the market area near the train station of Kodaira City, outside Tokyo shows the "wing span" of a flying fish. The fish shop is one of Sayo Ukita's stops on her daily shopping bike ride from her home. As might be expected in an island nation, Japanese families eat a wide variety of seafood: fish, shellfish, and seaweed of all kinds. In any given week, the Ukitas will eat at least a dozen different kinds of fish and shellfish, and three varieties of seaweed. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) The Ukita family of Kodaira City, Japan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (ONLY SAYO UKITA [CENTER] IS MODEL-RELEASED) Fruit and vegetable shop in Kodaira City, Japan, outside Tokyo. This is one of Sayo Ukita's daily stops for food shopping. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) The Ukita family of Kodaira City, Japan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Dummies waiting for a dressing outside a department store near the Kyoto Railway Station in Kyoto, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Most people in the heavily urban country of Japan, will eat out at restaurants that follow the Japanese custom of displaying plastic models of the food served within. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 182). This image is featured alongside the Ukita family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Walking in Tokyo's hip Harajuku area, a young girl clutches a kurepu (a crepe). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 184). This image is featured alongside the Ukita family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Beautifully appointed new Kyoto Railway Station with ubiquitous fast food accompaniment. Mister Donut. Kyoto, Japan.
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  • Plastic food in a restaurant window, Kobe, Japan. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 245).
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  • Frozen tuna at the famed Tsujiki auction site, Tokyo, Japan. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 205).
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  • Octopus and fish for sale in the famed Tsujiki fish market and auction site, Tokyo, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Young Japanese regularly clog the streets of the trendy Harajuku area of Tokyo, near the train station. Tokyo, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Fantastical restaurant window take out food display in Kobe, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The blessing of a new car at Yasaka-Jinja Shrine, Kyoto, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Artfully placed advertisement on a subway car in Osaka, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Commuter culture on the Osaka-Kobe subway route in Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Confluence of the work of Japanese architects and highway engineers in Osaka, Japan resulted in a highway going through a building. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Instant noodle display in a Japanese supermarket outside Tokyo, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Middle class kitchen and open refrigerator, Kobe, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Mother and child share french-fries at a shopping mall McDonald's fast food chain, Kobe, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Middle class mother with daughter lunches at McDonald's on a rainy day after her daughter's preschool gym class in Kobe, Japan.
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  • Impromptu desk in a Kobe playground. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • In a traditional Japanese setting, a couple shares a snack in a teahouse at a Kyoto temple. Japan. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 185). This image is featured alongside the Ukita family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Pachinko parlors in Japan are packed and popular with the older set. Osaka, Japan. (The girl holds a sign that says: "right now all of the machines have 'no panku'," which means they have turned off the part of the machine that randomly stops you from getting balls when you've started getting them. (The point of the game is to collect more and more balls, but sometimes when you get a ball somewhere, that makes them start streaming out, there is a function of the machine which will stop them after some random amount, so you usually get fewer; they've turned that function off). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Exemplifying Japan's lively and adventurous food culture, Osaka's Dotomburi Street offers an all-squid eatery, an all-crab place, and a restaurant specializing in fugu (poisonous blowfish). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 184). This image is featured alongside the Ukita family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Camera-cellphone culture in Osaka, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Naha City monorail, Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Naha City monorail, Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Sleepy healthful Ogimi Village, Okinawa, is home to many centenarians. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. (Supporting image from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Matsuda family in the kitchen of their home in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, with a week's worth of food. Takeo Matsuda, 75, and his wife Keiko, 75, stand behind Takeo's mother, Kama, 100. The couple's three grown children live a few miles away. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Tama Matsuda, 100 years old, watches as her daughter-in-law Keiko, 75, proudly shows images of Tama at different ages. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Matsuda family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 186). Hara hachi bu "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Tama Matsuda, 100 years old, and her daughter-in-law Keiko, 75, with beni imo -purple Okinawan potatoes that they are eating for lunch. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) The Matsuda family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 186). Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • (KEIKO MATSUDA IS MODEL RELEASED). Grocery store in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, where Keiko Matsuda does some of her shopping. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • (KEIKO MATSUDA IS MODEL RELEASED). Grocery store in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, where Keiko Matsuda does some of her shopping. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) The Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • (KEIKO MATSUDA IS MODEL RELEASED). Grocery store in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, where Keiko Matsuda does some of her shopping. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED) Keiko prepares a meal with her husband Takeo Matsuda in the kitchen of their home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • Grocery store in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, where Keiko Matsuda does some of her shopping. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • A few miles down the coast from Yomitan Village, in the town of Chatan, construction workers building Okinawa's biggest hotel, a 24-story complex, begin their day with compulsory exercises (until recently, a method of instilling esprit de corps that was common throughout corporate Japan). Unlike most other developed nations, Japan does not depend on foreign workers to perform hard physical labor. The overwhelming majority, if not all, of these men are Japanese. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 189). This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Grocery store in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, where Keiko Matsuda does some of her shopping. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa. is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Brilliantly colored parrotfish dominate a stall in the Makishi public market in the Okinawan town of Naha. Meticulously clean, Japanese markets are a testament to the affluence of this island nation. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 190).
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  • Snapper, Ginowan City, Okinawa. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 204).
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  • Snapper, parrotfish, shellfish and skinned fugu fish in the Naha City Makishi public market. Purchasers can bring their fish upstairs to the restaurants to have their fish cooked to order. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Snapper, parrotfish, and other fresh fish in the Naha City Makishi public market. Purchasers can bring their fish upstairs to the restaurants to have their fish cooked to order. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Snapper and other fish caught in the early morning being purchased direct from the dock by restaurants and wholesalers in Ginowan City, Okinawa. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Snapper and other fish caught in the early morning being purchased direct from the dock by restaurants and wholesalers in Ginowan City, Okinawa. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Meticulously clean, Japanese markets are a testament to the affluence of the island nation of Okinawa. In the Makishi market, a vendor at one typical stall offers a potential customer a free sample of daikon (giant white radish). Other choices include bitter melon, prunes, pickled baby cucumber, cabbage, rakkyo (a root in the lily family), and many other delights. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 191). This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Fresh goya (bitter gourd) and other vegetables are considered one of the reasons for Okinawan's longevity. Naha City Makishi public market. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. (Supporting image from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At a "longevity restaurant" (an eatery claiming to serve food that will make patrons live longer) in Ogimi, Okinawa, 96-year-old Matsu Taira finishes the long-life lunch with a jellied fruit dessert made from bright-red acerola berries. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 192). Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Among the treats in the menu at a "longevity restaurant" (an eatery claiming to serve food that will make patrons live longer) in Ogimi, Okinawa, are silver sprat fish, bitter grass with creamy tofu, daikon, seaweed, tapioca with purple potato and potato leaves, and pork cooked in the juice of tiny Okinawan limes. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 192). Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Among the treats in the menu at a "longevity restaurant" (an eatery claiming to serve food that will make patrons live longer) in Ogimi Village, Okinawa, are silver sprat fish, chopped vegetables and crispy rice flour, and purple Okinawan potatoes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more.
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  • Mr. Akamine, 100, eats lunch in his Naha City home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) His fellow Okinawans, the Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa, with one of their own centenarians, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Mr. Akamine, 100, eats lunch in his Naha City home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) His fellow Okinawans, the Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa, with one of their own centenarians, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • 90-year-old Haruko Maeda, in the front yard of her home in Ogimi Village, taking a break from cutting her lawn with a pair of hand shears. "I'm getting this done before it gets too hot," she explains. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • 90-year-old Haruko Maeda, sprawls comfortably in the front yard of her home in Ogimi Village, cutting the grass with a pair of hand shears. "I'm getting this done before it gets too hot," she explains. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Welfare and Longevity Office in Naha City, Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Elderly Japanese and their community caretakers play beach volleyball in an indoor pool at a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa. Patrons can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking footbaths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous, vibrant and lively places. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • At a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa, elderly Japanese can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking footbaths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous, vibrant and lively places. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 193). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • At a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa, elderly Japanese can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking foot baths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous, vibrant and lively places. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 193).
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  • At a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa, elderly Japanese can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking footbaths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous, vibrant and lively places. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • At a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa, elderly Japanese can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking footbaths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous, vibrant and lively places. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • At a nursing home near Ogimi Village, most of the community turns out to honor the birthdays of three residents, including Matsu Zakimi (left), turning 97, and Sumi Matsumoto (right), turning 88. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates. 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well-wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 195).
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  • Birthday celebrant has her photograph taken with her family at an Ogimi Village area nursing home in Okinawa, Japan. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates. 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • A great granddaughter speaks with her great grandmother Matsu Zakimi, 97, during her birthday celebration at a nursing home near Ogimi Village. Shortly thereafter the young woman applies purple eyeshadow to the woman's eyelids before official birthday photographs. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents, (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates?88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts washed down with beer and saki. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Matsu Zakimi (with purple eyeshadow applied by her great-granddaughter) during the celebration for her 97th birthday,at a nursing home near Ogimi Village. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates. 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts washed down with beer and saki. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Birthday celebrant at an Ogimi Village area nursing home in Okinawa, Japan. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates. 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Toshiko Taira, 87, of Kijoka, Okinawa, Japan. Many Okinawans used to work into their nineties, farming, and weaving bashofu, a fine fabric made from a local banana fiber. Bashofu weaving was a home-based craft, and highly valued, but there are few, if any, weavers producing the fabric at home anymore. The workshop of Toshiko Taira, 87, and her daughter, in the northern Okinawa village of Kijoka, is virtually all that is left of the art. She has been named a national treasure of Japan. She and her daughter are attempting to keep the fine practice alive. Although older generations of Okinawans are still living into their one-hundredth year, some say that the decline of weaving in the home was the beginning of the decline of the lengthy life spans of Okinawans.
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  • Many Okinawans used to work into their nineties, farming, and weaving bashofu, a fine fabric made from a local banana fiber. Bashofu weaving was a home-based craft, and highly valued, but there are few, if any, weavers producing the fabric at home anymore. The workshop of Toshiko Taira, 87, at left, with a young apprentice, in the northern Okinawa village of Kijoka, is virtually all that is left of the art. She has been designated a national treasure of Japan. She and her daughter are attempting to keep the fine practice alive. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Three girls chow down on A&W hot dogs at Mihama American Village on Okinawa's main island. Okinawa, Japan. The A&W fast food chain is found all around Okinawa's main island, as are soft drink advertisements. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A&W and ferris wheel at Mihama American Village on Okinawa's main island. Okinawa, Japan. The A&W fast food chain is found all around Okinawa's main island, as are soft drink advertisements. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • McDonald's and other fast food chains, both global and Japanese, are a frequent stop for busy Okinawans. Although the island is being studied for clues to Okinawan's great longevity, studies say that the younger population will not live as long because their diets are higher in saturated fats and calories. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Mister Donut store in Ginowan City has soy donuts, which are much less sweet than the regular American varieties. Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Standard issue Dunkin Donuts, and something new in Okinawa: Soy donuts, chewier but healthier than their Western brethren. Ginowan City. Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Waitress at Mister Donut chain pours an early morning cup of coffee for a guest in Ginowan City, Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A Japanese Colonel Sanders adorns a KFC in Tokyo, Japan. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 94)
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  • KFC and other fast food chains, both global and Japanese, are a frequent stop for busy Okinawans. Although the island is being studied for clues to Okinawan's great longevity, studies say that the younger population will not live as long because of their diets higher in saturated fats and calories. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Iconic Colonel Sanders statue with signs in front of KFC chicken fast food restaurant in Naha City, Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Mos Burger, a Japanese burger chain fast food restaurant car service window. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop in Okinawa, Japan. Although the island is being studied for clues to Okinawan's great longevity, studies say that the younger population will not live as long because of their diets higher in saturated fats and calories. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • A Japanese student expedition to Okinawa's Shuri Castle includes photographs with models in period costume. The original castle was believed to be the seat of power of the Sho dynasty for four-and-a-half centuries until 1879. It was designated a national treasure of Japan in 1928. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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