Photo by Lance Cpl. Trista Whited - The chestnut factory washes, sorts, preserves and packages chestnuts in Miwa Town, Japan, Oct. 18, 2019. The Miwa Town Chestnut Festival is held every year to symbolize the end of the chestnut harvest. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Trista Whited)

Residents of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, are given a cooking demonstration during a chestnut picking trip in Ganne Miwa-cho, Iwakuni City, Oct. 22, 2015. Participants learned how to make “kuri gohan,” or chestnut rice, boiled chestnuts and chestnut chips. “Ganne-guri,” the indigenous Japanese chestnut, is the largest member of the chestnut family and is an important ingredient during the autumn season. - Residents of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, are given a cooking demonstration during a chestnut picking trip in Ganne Miwa-cho, Iwakuni City, Oct. 22, 2015. Participants learned how to make “kuri gohan,” or chestnut rice, boiled chestnuts and chestnut chips. “Ganne-guri,” the indigenous Japanese chestnut, is the largest member of the chestnut family and is an important ingredient during the autumn season.