The master and the chef of Fukuno, Mitsuo Fukazawa, was born and raised in a small village called Tokai-village in Ibaraki prefecture located near Tokyo. After years of studying and training in Japan to become a Kappo chef, he traveled to the US and trained here for 16 more years working for several Japanese restaurants. He finally opened his own Kappo restaurant, Fukuno, in Torrance in 1994. Mitsuo and his wife has ever since run this family owned restaurant side by side, on their own, providing the authentic flavor and tradition of Japanese food to the people in Los Angeles.
