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Tokyo pub honors memory of special customer, Prince Takamado
BY YASUHIKO SHIMA STAFF WRITER
2012/11/22
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Customers tell stories about their encounters with Prince Takamado at the Masukame pub in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 5. The late prince's favorite seat remains unoccupied. (Shingo Kuzutani)
Prince Takamado (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Employees and patrons at a Japanese-style pub in Tokyo fondly recall the entrance of a first-time customer wearing his hat low at dusk one day in autumn 1998.
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