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2020年（令和2年）1月18日（水）JAPAN VOICECOOL JAPAN from New Yorkers’ Viewpoints
to sell SAMURAI JACKET SUIT moreand do the rental business as he wants tointroduce a good quality of Japanese
products. Murai said,“I want professional people all over the world to wear oursuit and hope that will boost the motivation by wearing it. Business suit is likemen’s battle uniform. I hope people canfeel the wish and will. Chosen people
feels the value to the will.”Samurai Suit/Jacket is a custommade suit attached with Japanese classic

Rats Going Viral:
A Decade in Review
by Ashley Matarama
2020 is the Year of the Rat inthe animal zodiac. As the newyear begins, I thought it would beinteresting to look back at twotimes in the last decade where rats
went viral in the States as well asin Japan.
The first incident takes us backto 2015, when a video was takenof a rat in the N.Y. subway dragging a slice of pizza down thestairs. This viral sensation became
known as “Pizza Rat” and got
millions of views worldwide. The
iconic New York-style pizza slice
got its fifteen minutes of famealong with the city’s hungry little
rodent resident.
The second incident happened
towards the end of the decade inTokyo. In 2019, convenience
store chain Familymart got into
trouble when one of its stores in
the Tokyo district of Shibuya wasfilmed with rats moving about theaisles and eating various fooditems. The rat infested chain
promptly got shut down.
Whether you find rats endearing or are creeped out by them,
you can’t argue with the fact thatthey are quite cunning. Thanks tothat cunningness, the rat was thefirst to arrive at the Emperor’sbanquet according to the zodiac
myth. They get themselves aroundand often garner fame, to our surprise or to our dismay. Perhaps
rats will go viral again, but hopefully not in a bubonic plague kindof way!

designs to lining, based on modernEngland traditional style. Wagara,
Japanese classic designs, each havemeaning and concept such as “will”,“happiness”, “progress/development”,
etc. It is said in the old history books
that having luxury things were prohibited by Tokugawa Shogunate. So people
wanted to express their personality
through the lining in Edo period. Murai
said, “I want to use this method in thisera. I want to make people feel free toexpress the personality and will by
wearing the only one custom-madesuit.”(Ryoichi Miura/ Translated by ChikakoIwasaki)

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Business Suits Are Like Men’s Battle Uniform

Enjoy Toshikoshi Soba

Samurai Suit/Jacket

Sakagura’s Gift to JAA Volunteers

Designed by Kazutoshi Murai
He was born in Asakusabashi,Tokyo in 1966. He is a 3rd generation tailor and has been watching
his grandfather and father sewing
since he was a child. Graduatedfrom fashion school at the age of20 and designed a body by working as a fitness instructor at thesports club until the age of 24, aim-ing for the collaboration of fashionand fitness. He started selling aSamurai Suit/Jacket at the WAZASHOP in Soho, New York, inFebruary 2017. This year, he wants

A relief party and a place to show respect to elders for the Japanese American
Association of New York (Chairman Suzan Onuma) was held on December 30that Sakagura Midtown with about 25 volunteers in the association. This event isheld annually by Shuho Yagi, the owner of the Sakagura Midtown and CEO of theTIC group. The volunteers were served cold soba and hot soba with tempura. Yagi
was gifted a bouquet of flowers and thank you words from Onuma and Director
Michiyo Noda. Yagi just received a Medal of Honor with gold and silver rays inTokyo. “I will continue to build a healthy society for both Japanese and American
without forgetting how thankful I am to everybody,” said Yagi.
(Ryoichi Miura/Translated by Kanta Hakamata)
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