Kazunori Kameyama
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Kazunori Kameyama Kameyama
When up and running, the $90 million operations, on 48 acres, would create 210 permanent jobs and generate more than $1 million a year in tax revenue for the town, county, and local schools, according to Kazunori Kameyama, president and chief executive of Yukiguni Maitake Manufacturing. Mr. Kameyama, a former banker, said that they were trying to come from Japan to the United States to spend money to make a healthful product, and they were not going to destroy the existing nature. Mr. Kameyama said the design reflects the fact that mushrooms need a perfectly controlled environment.
 According to Kazunori Kameyama, president and chief executive of Yukiguni Maitake Manufacturing, the $90 million operation, on 48 acres, when up and running, would create 210 permanent jobs and generate more than $1 million a year in tax revenue for the town, county and local schools. Mr. Kameyama, a former banker, said in an interview in his Middletown, N.Y., office, that thy are trying to come from Japan to the United States to spend money to make a healthful product, and they are not going to destroy the existing nature. He was distressed when a local newspaper put the story on its front page with the headline 'Mushroom Clouds', which he said he read as a not-so-subtle reference to the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.