Times of Oman: Chef who helped popularise French food dies
TOKYO –– Nobuo Murakami, a former chef at Tokyo's elite Imperial Hotel who is credited with helping to popularize French food in Japan since World War II, has died at age 84, associates said Thursday. Murakami was a regular face on cooking programs and was frequently called on for top events, setting the menu for athletes at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and for the official banquet during Queen Elizabeth II's visit in 1975..."We are losing one of the great pillars of French cuisine in Japan," said Dominique Corby, a French chef at the New Otani hotel in the western city of Osaka.
