A New Approach to Tackling Poverty: The Grown-Ups’ Cafeteria Program

The day’s menu: spaghetti with tomato sauce and creamy Japanese yam soup.

This man, now in his fifties, is concerned about his erratic shifts at work.

Sendai Keyaki Union representative Mori Shinsei.

Bags of rice and homemade rice balls set out for cafeteria diners to take home.