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...cocoa signature praline at Pierre Marcolini, tel: (813) 5537 2047. If fillings are your focus, start at Ponto, tel: (813) 5414 2420, where red bean, green tea, black sesame, and soy bean powder chocolates decorated with seasonal motifs are on offer. Then head to Roppongi Hills, where Le Chocolate de H, tel: (813) 5772 0075, turns out exquisite red-pepper or gold-flecked champagne bonbons...
TOKYO When it comes to basic business attire, men who shop Aoyama's Kotto-dori or Roppongi's Keyakizaka Street go straight for the classics, especially the three-button Hugo Boss suit ($1,100), right...
...life and make the city more livable. Mori deserves credit because he's looking to cut commuting times from three hours to a few minutes?for a select group of people, that is, those who can afford to pay. The monthly rents for bigger units at Mori's Roppongi Hills complex are higher than $8,500. That only a minuscule percentage of Tokyo's residents can afford this luxury housing is perhaps a minor detail to Mori. Amitabh Shukla Tokyo...
...decades, Japan's fashion designers have treated the thin glass of their storefront windows as an equally inviolate divider, cleaving the cool, exclusionary aesthetic of their boutiques from the rowdy street fashion of the teens preening outside. But enter Naoki Takizawa's sleek, stark space in Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi Hills neighborhood and the soaring glass wall seems less a barrier than an instrument for osmosis. Among his latest designs for haute-couture label Issey Miyake?fanciful blouses and blazers inspired by the flourishes of baroque furniture?mingle a more prosaic product: Takizawa's imaginative take on Lee jeans...
...biggest draws, especially for Japanese women, are the real, live Americans. Amejo is Okinawan slang for girls who love Americans, but they can be found anywhere in Japan where Americans hang out, sipping beers in the bars around the Naval base at Yokosuka, dancing in clubs in Tokyo's Roppongi district. Ground Zero for the amejo and their subcultural peers, the kokujo, though, is Okinawa...