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List of Figures
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xi figures 1.1 Street sign marking Roppongi Crossing 7 2.1 Roppongi and environs 35 2.2 Tokyo Tower as seen from a point near Roppongi Crossing 39 2.3 Roppongi orientation map 41 3.1 One of the many cemeteries along Roppongi’s back streets 78 3.2 Japanese soldiers on parade along Gaien Higashi-dōri, 1938 or 1939 79 4.1 Evening crowd gathering in front of Almond at Roppongi Crossing 106 4.2 One of the side streets from Roppongi Crossing 107 4.3 Performers on stage at nightclub opening 118 4.4 Popular Roppongi strip club 119 4.5 A foreign hostess at work in a Tokyo hostess club 130 4.6 Japanese hostesses escorting a favorite client to a taxi 131 4.7 Streetmen at work 139 4.8 Dinner party in a restaurant popular with foreigners and Japanese 143 4.9 A scene from the dance review at Roppongi’s Kingyo Club 150 5.1 Lucie Blackman’s younger sister Sophie at Roppongi Crossing 167 5.2 Policing Roppongi 176 5.3 Police stop and search a non-Japanese Asian woman 177 5.4 Mori Building Company’s notorious “indecent fliers collecting box” 186 xii • figures 5.5 Multilingual warning that security cameras are in place 189 6.1 Redevelopment sites in Roppongi, 2008 201 6.2 The “Squeeze” on Roppongi 205 6.3 Location of completed buildings and large redevelopment projects in Tokyo by Mori Building Company, 2007 211 6.4 Minoru Mori and Roppongi Hills model 213 6.5 Mori Tower and the Maman spider sculpture 221 6.6 Entry to Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills 224 6.7 Warning signs in Roppongi Hills 234 6.8 “Please lead children by the hand” 235 6.9 Tokyo Midtown as seen from Mori Tower, 2007 237 6.10 “Burberry and bamboo” in the Tokyo Midtown shopping mall 238 6.11 National Art Center as seen from Mori Tower 242 6.12 Inside the National Art Center 243 6.13 A new generation of Roppongi-zoku 244 7.1 Chaos and craziness along Gaien Higashi-dōri, nighttime Roppongi 250 7.2 Order and composure in Tokyo Midtown, daytime New Roppongi 251 7.3 Vision of urban life as presented by the Mori Building Company 256 7.4 Vandalized sign warning against aggressive touting on Roppongi streets and against damaging the sign 264 ...