Did not work... (may need to find alternative pdf-engine for pandoc?)
brew install basictex
pandoc doc/foo.md -o public/bar.pdf
Error producing PDF.
! LaTeX Error: Unicode character コ (U+30B3)
not set up for use with LaTeX.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
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