In Tokyo s Minato Ward, Heckeln, a cafe founded in 1971, sees more than 50 foreigners lining up daily before it opens. Their target is the Special Jumbo Pudding, priced at 500 yen. It is about 2.5 times the size of a typical pudding.
When considering the stories of Japanese war stragglers, such as those that we have been discussing for the past few columns — Shoichi Yokoi who hid for 28 years and