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A college dropout has risen to become the Japan’s latest billionaire after successfully building a global noodle empire. Money in udon: Takaya Awata, the 61-year-old founder and CEO of Toridoll Holdings, currently owns a 48% stake in the company valued at $1.1 billion. Toridoll, known for its "udon noodle" Marugame Seimen restaurant chain, has seen its shares surge by nearly 50% this year as the pandemic receded and dining out regained its allure.

Takaya Awata delved into the restaurant business immediately after dropping out of Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in 1985

Shima Shimizu, the founder of Sesame Kitchen in Hong Kong that runs raw vegan cookery classes, tells Kate Whitehead how teaching people to eat better can improve society as a whole.

South Korea still sees strong momentum for resuming three-way talks with Japan and China, a meeting Seoul will host this year after a four-year hiatus prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a source said Wednesday amid Beijing’s criticism of Seoul’s trilateral summit Friday with the US and Japan. China says the landmark summit US President Joe Biden held with President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Ministe...

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