Take one part of the working methodology from the influential 1972 book Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, combine it with the megacity of Tokyo, add Fordham University students, stir for nine days in Japan, and what do you get? You acquire knowledge through experience with a small team, realized in a research volume focusing on architecture, art, culture, design, fashion, photography, and urban planning, with business and marketing elements as subsets of the culture module.