Torsten Kjellstrand

Noodles aren't taken lightly in Japan. At a noodle factory in Tokyo, a worker at right measures the thickness of the noodle dough coming out of a machine, while another gathers noodles that aren't just right. Noodles are made from rice, buckwheat or soft white wheat in Japan, but most factory made noodles are wheat. Torsten Kjellstrand photo.