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▶ 3:01:20 Ben Gilbert They're launching in Tokyo, their first international city, slowly and then all at once.

▶ 4:21:17 Ben Gilbert In Milan, in Melbourne, in Tokyo, famously in New York City, there's a gorgeous building that they're building about a block from Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.

▶ 1:31:58 Howard Schultz We go to Tokyo, we meet him, we ended up forming a JV, and you know, the folklore at Starbucks, which is not that unrealistic, is the reason we went to Japan as an international market is because it had direct flight to Seattle.
▶ 1:32:24 Howard Schultz If you've been to Tokyo in August, it's hot.
▶ 1:34:03 Howard Schultz No, the coffee, no, it was the iconic reputation and anticipation of something that they had convinced themselves was unique, proprietary, not in Tokyo, not in Japan, that they wanted to have.
▶ 1:34:20 Howard Schultz And that cup, and by the way, the research, that cup was all over Tokyo in months.
▶ 2:32:41 Howard Schultz So there are six roasteries, starting in Seattle, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Milan.
▶ 2:34:41 Howard Schultz We open up an incredible space in Tokyo.

▶ 3:27:48 Ben Gilbert And at Louis Vuitton's immense four-floor global store in Tokyo, 40% of all sales are made in the first room, which sells only monogrammed handbags, wallets, and other leather goods.

▶ 17:45 David Rosenthal And when he's in Japan, he starts going to tracks in Tokyo and watching what people are wearing running around the tracks, and he observes, and he decides that the Tiger brand shoes that he's seeing are the best.
▶ 18:09 David Rosenthal And Phil, for a desperate introvert, kind of crazily, this is how passionate he is about this idea, he gets it in his head that he's gonna hop on a train from Tokyo and just go knock on their door and say hi to the Onitsuka Corporation…
▶ 3:17:15 David Rosenthal And the cities are like New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio, Paris, etc.

▶ 26:08 David Rosenthal If you remember, uh, when Sony first got started in Tokyo at literally the same time, they started by fixing radios.
▶ 26:30 David Rosenthal Unlike Sony in Tokyo, though, where there were a lot of radios in Tokyo, there weren't a lot of cars in Gamund.

▶ 7:17 David Rosenthal Well, first, we start back in the summer of 1944 in the Tsukishima neighborhood of Tokyo in Japan, right next to Tokyo Bay.
▶ 7:48 David Rosenthal We did Tokyo.
▶ 20:53 Ben Gilbert I mean, the darkest moment in human history, what happened there, or among the darkest anyways, even in Tokyo and all these other cities, they're destroyed.
▶ 21:05 Ben Gilbert I think it's something like half of all Japanese urban citizens, even in Tokyo are homeless.
▶ 21:11 David Rosenthal Yes, 47% of Tokyo citizens are homeless at this point.
▶ 21:44 David Rosenthal Ibuka goes right back to Tokyo.
▶ 21:47 David Rosenthal The research project had been evacuated out of Tokyo before the end of the war as the bombings really started in Tokyo.
▶ 21:53 David Rosenthal But he goes right back to Tokyo amidst all this.
▶ 25:23 David Rosenthal So he writes Ibuka and says that he wants to come to Tokyo and quote, be of service to him and the company.
▶ 27:26 David Rosenthal He finagles an assignment in the military, quote unquote, to get a teaching assignment at a university in Tokyo, still sort of through his original contract employment agreement, but he knows what's about to happen, which is that the…
▶ 1:07:19 Ben Gilbert So Sony's now tradable in Tokyo in the stock exchange there, on the New York stock exchange in the US.

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