Kumamoto boasts about a zillion (I think - I stopped counting after quadrillion) small businesses, and we here at KI want to support them, complementing Joe’s “Funky Friday” series. Please PM us your favorite local business and we will post it. Here is one: the bakery ぐちょきぱん - get it? - it’s a pun on “rock, scissors, paper” - in Oe-machi, just across from the library. Ohno-san, the owner, bakes their bread all on-site, and it sells out quickly, so you should get there early. Their telephone number is at the photo. If you have any special order, it can be fulfilled. (I gave him sourdough starter from San Francisco). Again, please let us know of your favorite local shop so that we can do a write-up - and visit ぐちょきぱん (early). - William