Just a little west of Tokyo’s center can be found an aging multi-floor shopping mall called Nakano Broadway. The complex itself may be worn and decaying, but the dedicated fans of pop-cultural properties of yesteryear keep it alive and throbbing. It is the sort of place that beckons a certain type of forty-to-fiftysomethin…
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