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In this new bimonthly series, Patrick Parr looks at how famous brands got their start in Japan. Parr previously wrote the “Japan Yesterday” series chronicling past historic visits to Japan by world-famous people. As early as January 1967, there were rumblings in American newspapers that Kentucky Fried Chicken would soon…