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Updated February 24, 2021

1st “Our family’s New Year’s Dishes” Photo Contest
Winners announced!

Thank you so much for all theentries to the 1st “Our Family’s New Year’s Dishes” photo contest. We received over 300 posts in total from inside and outside of Japan.
All photos displayed the variety and traditions of each families.
Below are the photos of contest winners. Congratulations!!

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Updated December 21, 2020

1st “Our Family’s New Year’s Meal” Photo Contest

<Application Period>Monday, December 21, 2020 – Friday, January 22, 2021
We want you to send us photographs of what your family’s New Year’s meal means to you. It might be the traditional New Year’s dishes of the region where you come from, or your own family’s unique New Year’s dishes, or the New Year’s meal you would like to share with family members you cannot get together with this year.
Prizes will be awarded for around 10 photographs that we think deserve a wider audience, with the winning entries featured in the Agency for Cultural Affairs Online Food Culture Symposium.
We hope you will all enter!