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Just crush the beans from that can until it turns into a paste. You should have bought the paste kind because even if you crush the yude azuki, you won't be able to get rid of the skin, which can be distracting when eating the ichigo daifuku.

Depends but usually just a coupe of days. You will know when it's too hard to chew. Had it not been the strawberrry, you can toast old hardened daifuku to soften it again.