Shohei Takamatsu died on April 26, 2026, just over a week before his 95th birthday, and the obituaries that followed described him correctly as a pioneer of Japanese cuisine in Dallas. What they couldn’t fully capture is the specific weight of that word in this context — what it actually meant, in practical terms, to open a serious Japanese restaurant in Dallas in 1973, and what grew from the seed he planted over the next three decades.
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