Nowami Consultation Center has set up a warehouse next to its office in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, dedicated to storing supplies for a food bank that feeds the homeless, struggling families and foreign residents in need.
The center, a support group to assist the poor, wants to get more companies to donate food by improving the storage facility and distributing food without waste.
The food bank collects the supplies — often nonstandard products or food close to their sell-by dates — from companies and distributes them to social welfare facilities and low-income households for free.