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Masaharu Nanami
For Masaharu Nanami's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2009
First Japanese eatery on Easter Island thrives
EASTER ISLAND, Chile — Francisco Xavier, who studied cooking in Japan for 10 years, has been running a Japanese-style restaurant on Easter Island in the South Pacific, best known for its "moai" statues, since February 2007, providing sushi to local residents and tourists alike.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2009
Japanese-Peruvians still angry over wartime internment in U.S. camps
LIMA — As Peruvians of Japanese descent observe the 110th anniversary of their parents' or grandparents' immigration to the South American country this year, some do not hide their anger at World War II that forced them to live in an internment camp in the United States.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 25, 2009
Nisei honored for contribution to development of baseball in Peru
LIMA — A Japanese-Peruvian man is the first person from baseball to have his name engraved on the outer wall of the national stadium in Peru, where soccer is the national pastime, for his contribution to developing the game in the country.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2008
Grower's Ecuadorean bananas gain foothold in Japanese market
LA CONCORDIA, Ecuador — Masahiro Tanabe, 57, the sole Japanese running a banana plantation in Ecuador, is building a firm foothold in the Japanese market with his philosophy of producing safe and tasty fruit.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 3, 2008
Building of first Japan legation to Brazil found
A Japanese resident of Brazil has discovered the building that housed Japan's first legation there, three years after he began searching for it in connection with the centennial of Japanese emigration to the South American country.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2001
Yamanashi firm develops land-mine destroyer
A firm in Yamanashi Prefecture has developed Japan's first land-mine disposal machine, which promises to destroy mines about 20 times faster than can be done manually. Kiyoshi Amemiya

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