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This picture taken on November 18, 2022 shows French chef Olivier Oddos, whose Tokyo restaurant boasted a Michelin star between 2014 and 2021, cleaning a knife with whetstone at his restaurant's kitchen in Tokyo. In a Japanese city once famous for forging samurai swords, craftsmen sharpen and polish kitchen knives, but even at full tilt their small factory can't keep up with global demand. The export value of knives and other bladed tools like scissors hit a record high in Japan last year, partly thanks to a home-cooking boom sparked by the pandemic. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Photo)
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