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“Tempura. Castella. Kasutera. Japan's most beloved foods carry a Portuguese soul.”

Five hundred years ago, Portuguese ships landed in Japan and started a story almost nobody tells. It gave Japan tempura, its most famous cake, and words its people still speak every day. I grew up on one side of that story — this site tells both.

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