INTERVIEW WITH MORIMOTO, IRON CHEF JAPANESE Ð Story Title: MORIMOTO!
Chefs across the country are terrified of Iron Chef Morimoto, but here, the formidable sushi master reveals his gentler side. In his conversation with Glimpse staff, he discusses why he became a sushi chef (he liked the starched white uniforms), the challenges he faces in the kitchen and why some Japanese chefs look down on him. (Page 61)

WILD TOKYO NIGHTLIFE -- Story Title: BRIGHT LIGHTS AND DARK EYES, by Joe Novak
Although most Japanese frown upon Roppongi, one of Tokyo's wildest neighborhoods, Joe Novak just can't resist the madness. He outlines his journey--by bike, train and foot--from the International Christian University to Club Lex, where foreign models in Tokyo go for a good time. (Page 38)

**Also includes two sidebars outlining the role of drinking in Japanese culture and Tokyo city statistics. (Page 34)

THE 'REAL' JAPAN -- Story Title: OTHER PEOPLE'S CLOTHES, by Mary Catharine Martin
Believing that rural areas can offer a type of authenticity that cities cannot, Mary Catharine Martin leaves her temporary home of Kyoto to travel to the island of Shikoku. She visits an old vine bridge, only to find the vines wound with plastic and the bridge swarming with Japanese tourists. In a culture so steeped in both tradition and innovation, she is left to wonder what 'authentic' really means. (Page 44)

**Also includes a sidebar on the integration of 'traditional' and 'modern' in Japanese culture. (Page 49)

TATTOOING: A DYING JAPANESE ART -- Story Title: A DYING ART by Wade P. Shepard
Wade P. Shepard ventures to an unmarked Japanese tattoo parlor tucked in a Kyoto alleyway, in hopes of securing an interview with an old horimono master so that he can get a traditional Japanese tattoo. Such tattoo parlors are largely the domain the of the yakuza, Japan's organized crime syndicate, and a foreigner's presence in one is very rare. Wade wonders whether he will pass the 'test.' (Page 50)

**Also includes a sidebar on the history of the yakuza. (Page 54)

LESSONS FROM A BUDDHIST MONK -- Story Title: AN AFTERNOON WITH A BUDDHIST MONK, by Misa Dikengil
Misa Dikengil travels to the small town of Miura, outside Tokyo, to meet the head monk of the Pure Land Buddhist temple. Monk Shouken's simulatenous inclinations toward unconditional kindness and professional wrestling challenge Misa's rigid preconceptions about a 'Buddhist way of life.' (Page 56)

INSIDE MOTHER TERESA'S MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY -- Story Title: A BABEL THAT WORKS, by Tze Yong Ng
As a volunteer for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, Tze Yong Ng explores how the city that really knew this much-loved and controversial figure remembers her. In a series of vivid photographs, he documents Kolkata's poorest of the poor. (Page 82)

VOLUNTEER WORK IN COLOMBIA -- Story Title: BRICK WALL, by Sara Schaff
All that Fanny wants for Christmas is a new front wall. Sara Schaff wants to help her Colombian friend, but instead of building a brick wall, she ends up hitting one instead. She learns that help across cultural and economic lines can engender as much resentment as it does good will. (Page 16)

**Also includes a sidebar on poverty in Colombia and its link to political violence. (Page 24)

LIVING IN PETRA -- Story Title: RED ROSE CITY, by Blaine Pennington
While staying with a Bedouin family in Jordan, Blaine Pennington learns about the loss of their ancestral home after government efforts to relocate Bedouin living in Petra's caves in the 1980s. For visiting tourists, the city of Petra is an ancient treasure, but for his hosts, the city represents a lost way of life. (Page 30)

**Also includes a sidebar on the details of government relocation efforts after Petra was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. (Page 33)

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