It seemed inevitable that Dan Lentz would become a cobbler. At 12, his first job was shining shoes at Roy's Shoe Shop in ...
What makes one shine shoes for a living? Is it a job that people take just out of desperation and poverty, or can it be a craft? An art form, even? Can shining someone else’s shoes be healing ...
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 ...