New management should be able to sort things out after the resignation in April of Hiroo Mizushima, Sogo's boss.

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And one of Japan's leading comic-book artists, Hiroo Nakata, draws us a special manga detailing how the generation gap might someday be healed.

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The most popular neighbourhoods for expats are Omotesando in the Shibuya ward, Azabu, Hiroo and Roppongi in the Minato ward and Daikanyama and Nakameguro in the Meguro ward.

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