Iwasaki K, Cyong JC, Kitada S, Kitamura H, Ozeki J, Satoh Y, Suzuki T, Sasaki H.

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Kitamura argues that no one makes a bagel--even a frozen one--like a New Yorker, and that will keep Bagel K in demand.

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Bell was peddling almost all his bagels and bialys to stores on the East Coast until he met Kanji Kitamura, a Japanese distributor, at a trade show in 1998.

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With Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, and Etsuko Ichihara.

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So Kitamura encouraged Bell to redesign his bagels--a minor craze in Japan--folding the sweet ingredients into the dough. (A pure New Yorker will not tolerate even minor adulterations, like raisins.) They're flying off shelves in Tokyo and Osaka.

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