Akira Hayama

An assistant of Professor Jun Shiomi, Akira comes from overseas; they met when he was an orphaned child and warned her about adultered spices in a market (presumably in India). Jun recognized the dormant talent in him and brought him back to Japan, where he was adopted by her teacher, Hayama. Akira quickly learned Japanese and studied spices and aroma under Shiomi. Jun became a mother figure for him, and his motivation to succeed at cooking stems from wanting to give something back to Jun. Akira specializes in curr…