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Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded Benihana (born 1938)
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American Japanese cuisine restaurant company
Benihana is a chain of Japanese restaurants. Originally founded by Yunosuke Aoki as a cafe in Tokyo in 1945, Benihana spread to the United States in 1964 when his son Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki opened its first restaurant in New York City.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)