I have been to Tokyo five times in the last decade. I keep going back, partly because the food is the best in the world by almost any metric I can apply to food, partly because I have, by now, a small set of bars and bookshops and corners of particular neighborhoods that I look … Continue reading Tokyo isn’t the future anymore — it’s the future 1980s pop culture promised us, perfectly preserved, while Seoul, Shenzhen, and Dubai have spent the last decade building the version that comes after