Bread to serve with Japenese soup?

I am fixing a Japenese type soup that has soba noodles, shitake mushrooms and spinach. My husband wants bread with it. Is there a type of bread or type of Japenese bread that would be good with this soup? The main broth is chicken broth.

For me, the breads that work best with soups are yeasty, with their large pockets of carbon-dioxide laden holes that suck up all that goodness. I know I'm a bit irreverent on this subject, but I love to follow the Italian tradition of just placing a loaf of bread on the table and not serving a knife, encouraging the dining mate to use the bread as a utensil...

(can it get better, in any country?)