Everybody knows about Office in Kita-Aoyama -- the funky little fifth-floor, no-elevator hangout with a photocopier next to the DJ booth. But few people have had the pleasure of meeting Sadahiro Nakamura. Then again, you may have met him and just not realized that he was the man behind the scene and proprietor of a burgeoning night empire. His boyish appearance belies his 33 years and success in business -- as I found out recently, when we met for a chat.

"I wanted to start a company, just like my dad," he said, when I asked him what he had dreamed of becoming when he was growing up.

"You mean an office?"