Designer Ellery Hardrick creates the sparkling shoes by hand. To make the shoes shine, the self-proclaimed Glitter King coats them in a special adhesive, pours on heaps of glitter, and then shakes ...

A shoe shine man who has been a familiar sight in the heart of the capital for half a century set up shop on a recent weekday on a sidewalk near JR Tokyo Station. He arranged folding chairs in a ...