Ito, whose family ran a miso (bean paste) factory following his father's early death when Ito was 12, has said he wasn't interested in architecture as a youth.

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The brothers' self-destructive ways in turn reflect the premature "interrupt" that marred their early lives their father's tragically early death.

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He served about three years, but left the service early after his father's death in 1995.

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