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And to HIDDY - good luck getting Japanese style bread quickly and cheaply. All the Japanese people I've been feeding lately prefer what I've been baking than what they remember from Japan.
I have a US-market Zojirushi but our Japanese friends say that only the Japanese-market breadmakers do the job (and they say Panasonic is the best).
I've been trying to bake white bread for ages but nothing I do ever comes close to the retail Yamazaki white bread in Japan and the US (Yamazaki also sells in my neighborhood in the DC area under the Vie de France label). I'd be interested in your recipe for replicating Japanese bread.