It¡¯s surprising just how far some fishy connections can get you.
In 2004, Yuji Haraguchi, originally from Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture, left his job as a salesman in Japan and headed across the Pacific to Boston to take up a position with True World Foods, one of the biggest fish distributors in the U.S. The sudden change in work turned out to be the first step toward a whole new vocation.
Like many fresh graduates, Haraguchi had quickly discovered that the first job he had landed ¡ª in this case selling complex multimillion dollar machine parts ¡ª was not something he wanted to spend his whole life doing. Perhaps that helped highlight what he did enjoy doing, though, as at the same time, he made another discovery: He was a foodie.
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