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WDI International, Inc.
Ayano Ichida has two passions: entertainment and food. After a career in the former, she’s now pursuing the latter as the first general counsel of WDI International.
A restaurant holding group that develops popular enterprises like dim sum spot Tim Ho Wan, Hard Rock Cafe and Tony Roma’s and brings them to an international stage, WDI opened the first KFC in Japan in 1972, and it has grown to more than 190 individual resta... (continued)