Ami & Her Guitar revolve dramatically through the doors at What the Dickens pub in Tokyo's Ebisu. She's late, she's late, for a very important date, but on a day when temperatures have hit 40 C plus, she is easily forgiven.
Ami & Her Guitar sing and play here once a month, and this is their night. August is special, however, because they will be back on Sunday, Aug. 26 to perform in the charity benefit that Ami is organizing on behalf of The Polaris Project to raise awareness of the human trafficking feeding the world's rampant sex industry.
"We've just come back from the beach in Okayama," Ami explains, while at the same time leaning her guitar carefully against a wall, ordering drinks and making sure her British musician-partner (leader of the Foot Aim Fire band) is OK about her being interviewed alone.