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Growing up in Japan during the reconstruction era after World War II, my father had always dreamed of solving rampant poverty and hunger in underdeveloped countries. In the 1960s, while studying civil engineering at Waseda University, he was inspired by the Peace Corps and planned with his friends to create a similar organization to help develop the poor nations of South America. Eventually, he came to believe that the key to resolving global poverty and hunger lay in the United States’ economic dominance, the development of South American food production industries, and the vast potential of maritime resources. In the late 1980s, he moved to the United States and created several businesses and educational programs in the poor community of Jersey City, New Jersey. In the early 2000s, he turned his attention to South America to begin research on how the Amazon and Pantanal regions, as well as the arctic krill fishing off Uruguay, could be utilized as strategic food sources for the poor worldwide. Until his death in 2019, he gained many friends around the world who supported his dream of finding solutions to global poverty and hunger.

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I, too, followed my father’s footsteps to South America after retiring early from systems engineering work in the aerospace industry in the United States and Japan, in search of the same dream to end poverty and hunger. While operating a business in Paraguay, I had the chance to support the local community and poverty-related efforts, and in 2018, received an award for “the Best Company for Social Contribution” in its industrial sector.

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My wife, Nancy, now shares the same dream. She worked as a psychotherapist and social worker near Skid Row (famous for homelessness) in Los Angeles, and from her experience, she convinced me that poverty has strong ties to psychology, sexual culture, tradition, and family structure. This led me to understand that solutions to global poverty and hunger must be more comprehensive than I had ever imagined.

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At the end of 2025, my wife and I decided to take a new step toward our dream together with our friends. We decided to found a new organization, which we named the Food Security Research Network, dedicated to seeking more comprehensive solutions that tie together all the partial solutions that already exist in the world. We aim to be students who learn from existing organizations around the world, replicate best practices, experiment with new methods, and reach areas of the world where others cannot.