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title: "Snippets: Kindness from a small Kyoto gyoza stall owner"
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published_at: "2020-12-05T09:35:48+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-12-19T02:09:29+00:00"
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excerpt: "How can someone bless many poor students? With food."
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How can someone bless many poor students? With food.  
   
 For many decades, Inoue-san posted a sign at his shop,

> “Customers who can’t pay for their meals can eat their fill if they wash the dishes.”

The 70-year old retired and closed his venerable shop in October 2020, after feeding many poor students who attended the nearby Kyoto universities in Japan.

On TV news, Inoue-san was hugged and bowed to by many adults who benefited from his kindness through the years past, some with tears, upon learning his shop would [close](https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201015/p2a/00m/0et/024000c)
. Many of these former students are #professionals today, with families and kids.

Bless others with kindness and deeds, and God shines on your eternal soul (Micah 6:8, Ephesians 4:32).

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