Styling tips from fifth-generation owner of a business that began before samurai were allowed to cut their top-knots.
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Our mild-mannered reporter gets hooked up with the king of bad-boy haircuts in Japan, the “regent.”
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Our resident otaku signed up to be the Internet’s guinea pig…the first to document bleaching his transplanted hair.
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