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...private room at a posh Shinjuku crab restaurant, five twentysomethings surround Noboru Koyama, 60-year-old CEO of Tokyo cleaning company Musashino. Koyama looks at his watch - it's 8:30 p.m. - and announces that the party is moving: "O.K.," Koyama says briskly, "we'll do hotel bar, sushi, drag-queen show, hostess club, in that order." The young salarymen, who volunteered to spend Saturday night with their boss, gasp. "We're going...
...buildings since 2002, vs. none in the previous political term), thanks to a stable economy and lower interest rates that have made buying homes easier for ordinary residents of Istanbul. He now owns an apartment on Baghdad Avenue, the smartest address in the city, lined with designer shops and sushi bars. And while secularists once made fun of AKP officials for their brown, poorly tailored suits, Eksioglu adopts a cooler style with a fashionably unshaven jaw, shorts and a Led Zeppelin T shirt or, while campaigning, a sharp suit. To the consternation of local secularists, plenty of young, prosperous Turks...
...these days, then Whole Foods is the ultimate pleasure palace. Its London store is its biggest ever, comprising 80,000 square feet spread out over three floors offering 10,000 grocery items. These include 1,000 different wines, 425 cheeses, 40 types of sausage, 55 in-store chefs, a sushi bar, a champagne and oyster bar and a DJ-booth to play music for late-night shoppers...
...called the Pixar culture. The studio has working methods more in common with the dotcom companies in nearby Silicon Valley than with the movie industry down in Los Angeles. For a start, everyone who works there, from the executives to the cooks at Luxo Cafe (try the excellent sushi), is encouraged to take a filmmaking class and make a short film. This is part of Pixar president Ed Catmull's belief in "lifelong learning...
...commuter trains rumble outside the window of Shinobu's crowded kitchen, we prepare tuna sushi cake, tofu, a carrot and radish soup and a vinaigrette salad. As we sit on the tatami mat, sipping plum wine and eating from each bowl in turn, the kimono-clad 60-year-old explains what makes a proper Japanese meal. "It's about the balance of nutrition," she says. "We need to have fish, vegetables, soup at every meal - and of course rice." Shinobu's meal is scrumptious, but when I compliment her, she demurs. "I'm just an ordinary housewife...