Earlier this year, the Dentsu Research Institute predicted that Japan's co-hosting of the World Cup would benefit the economy to the tune of 3.182 trillion yen. While Tokyo isn't hosting any of the games, its glitzy Roppongi district will likely play host to thousands of soccer fans from around the world in search of excitement on other fields of play.
For them, and others, here's a taste of what awaits in Roppongi 2002.
In the long, hot summer of 2000, Roppongi was besieged by reporters and camera crews from all over Japan and the world. Back then, though it was already renowned as Tokyo's most cosmopolitan dusk-to-dawn adult playground, the area was propelled to international notoriety following the disappearance of a young British woman working illegally at one of its many nightclubs employing foreign hostesses.