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My Own Private Tokyo

I wish I had a thousand-yen note for every journalist who, over the past decade, has asked
me whether Japan is still as futurologically sexy as it seemed to be in the '80s. If I did, I'd
take one of these spotlessly lace-upholstered taxis over to the Ginza and buy my wife a
small box […]

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