I was thinking maybe you could open some kind of store there. It’s company property, so I’ll have to take the going rate for the down payment and rent, but if you’d like to have a go at it, I can lend you as much as you want.” I thought about it for a while. The possibilities were intriguing. That’s how I came to open an upscale jazz bar in the basement of a brand-new building in Aoyama.
