蜜芽传媒

This is the story of how, with a lot of trial and error, Yoshitada Minami created an invention that would revolutionise rice-cooking forever.

With little knowledge of how to make the perfect rice himself, Yoshitada turned to the unsung heroine of this tale 鈥� his wife, Fumiko Minami.

After years of testing the cookers and enduring a lot of badly cooked rice, Yoshitada's family helped him perfect the automatic electric rice cooker.

Natasha Fernandes speaks to Aiji Minami, Yoshitada and Fumiko's youngest son about why it was such a game changer, liberating Japanese people, mostly women, from two to three hours of housework a day.

(Picture: Fumiko and Yoshitada Minami. Credit: Aiji Minami)