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TOKYO, June 5 Kyodo
Ginza may have lost some of its past glory but several elderly people in the district are working to ensure that it remains a showcase of bustling Tokyo.
They include Hideko Arima, 99, Ichiro Sekiguchi, 87, Yuji Ishimaru, 65, Yasuo Chiba, 62, and Hiroji Miyata, 59.
Ginza, stretching about 600 meters east to west and about 1,100 meters north to south, was for long, and still is to some degree, considered a symbol of Japan's prosperity, setting the pace in upscale fashion and boasting top-class bars and night clubs. It is also home to about 4,000 restaurants.
But its streets have changed in the nearly 10 years since the collapse of the asset-inflated bubble economy, with some long-established shops giving way to the advance of foreign-affiliated...
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