The preflight safety video that thoroughly explained how to evacuate the Japan Airlines Airbus A350 that collided with another plane may be part of the reason all 379 people on board the jetliner survived a firey crash.
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Although it has been years since I’ve traveled in mesmerizing Tokyo, my memories are as vivid as though they had been sparked yesterday—pleasures aswirl in unique flavors and noises, creativity and ingenuity. So when luxury publisher Assouline released the new book Tokyo Chic, I dove into its 312 lush-paper-stock pages, with more than 200 photographs and illustrations, which are bound in an outsize (10-by-13-inches, 6.4-pound) format—a hefty hardcover wrapped in silk. The brainchild of Andrea Fazzari, whose deft imagery and words are love letters to the inimitable capital, Tokyo Chic showcases a massively enthralling—yet strikingly intimate—city. Currently based in Tokyo, Fazzari is a James Beard Award-winning photographer, author and restaurant maven with notable backgrounds in fashion and film. Born in New York City, she has lived in France, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain and Thailand—and speaks four languages. What a sophisticated guide to have at your armchair traveler’s fingertips! Indeed, this coffee table tome would make a treasured holiday gift for those who have already vacationed in Japan or simply dream of doing so.
Fazzari launches the book’s introduction by sharing a key anecdote that I find instantly relatable. She writes: “As I say thank you and leave the restaurant after dinner, I realize they are trailing me down the street. The click-clack of geta (traditional wooden-soled shoes) against the pavement cuts through the evening quiet of the Shinbashi neighborhood as a legendary 80-year-old chef and his daughter, in a kimono, engage me in this long goodbye. Each time that I turn to check if they are still there, they are, waving and bowing, the distance between us growing. Chef Nishi remains especially attentive, bowing deeply—his cane his only support—as I turn a final corner. Part of me yearns to go back to see if he is still there; such care, courtesy and heartfelt hospitality endear him to me. And each time this singular ritual of omiokuri (the honorable farewell) happens here in Tokyo, or elsewhere in Japan—especially after a meal or stay at a ryokan, or upon leaving a store—emotion overtakes me.”
I, too, remember the remarkable day that I departed my Tokyo hotel, curiously aware that—as I left the front desk for my waiting taxi—four staff members trailed me across the grand lobby and followed outside beyond the ornately wood-carved, double-entry doors. Silently, they smiled while the driver loaded my luggage into the car’s trunk. Then, standing precisely in a row, they bowed to me in unison and gently waved as my vehicle inched forward. It was a joyful parting gesture that carried me in high spirits back home to the United States. I still draw on the warmth of that touching adieu scene, a
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