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Junot Diaz Reflects on Tokyo

Junot Díaz praises the Japanese capital's insane urbanism, costume tribes, and salsa in Roppongi in part of Newsweek International's "The City" series.

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Tokyo. Credit: Getty Images,Tom Bonaventure

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and...

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