A M NairAyyappanpillai Madhavan Nair, or A. M. Nair, was born in Kerala, India, in 1905. He came to Japan in 1928, where he studied civil engineering at Kyoto Imperial University. In 1942, he participated in the establishment of the Indian Independence Leagu, and from then until the end of the war was consistently involved in various movements in the cause of India's independence. In 1949, founded the Nair Trading Company and opened Nair Restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza, which continues to this day. In 1984, he was awarded with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class. A. M. Nair passed away in 1990 in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India. Read More Read Less