A family-run Japanese restaurant brings down its final curtain, after 34 years in Sydney CBD

Bringing Japanese kushiyaki skewers to Australia—. Yoshihiro Yura arrived in Sydney with his family in the 1990s, just before the bubble burst in Japan. However, the strategy fell short of expectations.

Japanese restaurateur Yoshihiro Yura and his family, friends. Credit: Yoshihiro Yura

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A family-run Japanese restaurant brings down its final curtain, after 34 years in Sydney CBD

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Since the 1990s, the restaurant has survived the fluctuations of time and exchange rates, the Covid-18 lockdowns and the subsequent New Normal, but this year it is closing its doors. In the audio, we spoke to Mr Yura on his life in Australia.

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