Jesse McFaddin strolls around Togoshi Ginza ²õ³ó¨³Ù±ð²Ô²µ²¹¾± (shopping district) on a recent chilly December afternoon.
Everywhere he goes, people call out to him and his dog, Bambi, offering a quick salutation or two. He walks by a bookstore from which he bought his first comic book, a public bathhouse that welcomes people with tattoos and Togoshi Hachiman Shrine, which he visits on a daily basis to pray for the health of his family.
McFaddin is the lead vocalist and guitarist of Rize and the son of famed musician Char. But that¡¯s not why everybody in Togoshi Ginza knows him. The Takenaka clan, McFaddin¡¯s Japanese family name, has been in the area for four generations.
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