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Ryuichi Sakamoto gazes out the window at the homeland he abandoned more than a decade ago. With his jeans and long hair, he plainly does not belong here, in this staid and proper teahouse on the 41st floor in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. The other male patrons are dressed in impeccable business suits; the women are in pearls. They all do their best to ignore the intruder, except an elderly woman and a man in a dark blue suit who glare at him in ostentatious distaste.
They don't recognize him--but they ought to. Millions of Japanese music lovers idolize Ryuichi Sakamoto, 49, one of the country's best-known contemporary composers. Two decades ago he rose to stardom ...