[FOOD] Rare pictures from World War I show how Japanese learned from the Germans to make sausage

August 17, 2008 by Dennis Amith

Mainichi Daily News reported, “Rare pictures of German prisoners of war from World War I showing the Japanese how to produce sausages have been discovered.”

“Takashi Chiba, 37, a museum curator at the Kasumigaura-shi Kyodo Shiryokan in Ibaraki Prefecture, found the pictures in June while he was researching Yoshifusa Iida, a Japanese government official who was said to have spread sausage manufacturing methods across Japan.”