Years ago, an earnest, bespectacled busboy described to us the (in his mind) amusing proclivities and mores of the medieval Japanese. How he had access to this information with a busboy’s salary and attention span, we will never know. He claimed that a dishonored man had many options when it came to suicide, but the method that most astounded our young scholar was the method wherein a man eats as much salt as he can stomach – and then eats more. Then he dies. We toasted this memory today over a cup of steaming San-J Traditional Japanese Mild Miso Soup, one serving of which contains 57% of our Recommended Daily Allowance of sodium.