Paola Faccioli (second from right), CEO of Pasticceria Cova poses with, from far left, Tokyu Corporation Executive General Manager of Retail Business Headquarters Masahiro Horie; Tokyu Corp. President and Representative Director Kazuo Takahashi; Tokyu Group Chairman of the Board, Representative Director Chairman Hirofumi Nomoto; and President of LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton Japan K.K. Norbert Leuret, during a reception at Cafe Cova Milano GINZA SIX for the grand opening of the new flagship store in Ginza on Sept. 10. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
Paola Faccioli (second from right), CEO of Pasticceria Cova poses with, from far left, Tokyu Corporation Executive General Manager of Retail Business Headquarters Masahiro Horie; Tokyu Corp. President and Representative Director Kazuo Takahashi; Tokyu Group Chairman of the Board, Representative Director Chairman Hirofumi Nomoto; and President of LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton Japan K.K. Norbert Leuret, during a reception at Cafe Cova Milano GINZA SIX for the grand opening of the new flagship store in Ginza on Sept. 10. | YOSHIAKI MIURA

The opening ceremony of exhibition
The opening ceremony of exhibition "Septiernos: Pueblos del Oriente Boliviano'' at Tokyo Instituto Cervantes. From left: Instituto Cervantes Tokio Director Victor Ugarte; Angela Ayllon, the Charge d'Affaires at the Embassy of Bolivia; Bolivian Photographer Joaquin Carvajal, whose work conveys cultural visualizations such as indigenous nature in the forest area of eastern Bolivia; and Miwa Okubo of Tokyo Instituto Cervantes. photo courtesy of bolivian embassy |

The Okura Tokyo, the new flagship hotel of Hotel Okura Co., during the ribbon-cutting ceremony. From left: President and Representive Director of Hotel Okura Tokyo Masaharu Naruse; Architect Yoshio Taniguchi; Chairman of the Board of Taisei Corp. Takashi Yamauchi; Chairman of Hotel Okura Yoshihiko Okura; Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike; President and Representative Director of Hotel Okura Toshihiro Ogita; President of Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co. Yasuhiko Imaizumi; Chairman of Hotel Okura Tokyo Masaki Ikeda; and Senior Managing Director, Representative Director and General Manager of Hotel Okura Tokyo Shinji Umehara, at Toranomon, Minato Ward on Sept. 12. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
The Okura Tokyo, the new flagship hotel of Hotel Okura Co., during the ribbon-cutting ceremony. From left: President and Representive Director of Hotel Okura Tokyo Masaharu Naruse; Architect Yoshio Taniguchi; Chairman of the Board of Taisei Corp. Takashi Yamauchi; Chairman of Hotel Okura Yoshihiko Okura; Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike; President and Representative Director of Hotel Okura Toshihiro Ogita; President of Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co. Yasuhiko Imaizumi; Chairman of Hotel Okura Tokyo Masaki Ikeda; and Senior Managing Director, Representative Director and General Manager of Hotel Okura Tokyo Shinji Umehara, at Toranomon, Minato Ward on Sept. 12. | YOSHIAKI MIURA