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Hiromi Maki is a livestock distributor.

“It’s been 50 years since I started this business at the age of 18, and I have been satisfied with beef cattle breeding. I have no regrets about engaging in it. Some people kindly say, ‘I have no worries in leaving my cattle to Maki,’ and we do business on this mutual understanding. That is how I’m able to make a living. It’s through person-to-person relationships. I always go to the ordinary (Non-Dowa) districts to do business, and I think discrimination cannot be eliminated without building trusting relationships between people. Cattle breeding has created relationships where people understand me. For me, cattle brought bonds. Cattle and I are as one. Since I won a prize at the All Japan Wagyu Association Cattle Show, people tell me they are hoping I win again five years from now. I hope I’ll still be alive and well!”