Mr. Hiroshi Onishi, President and CEO of Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, and fashion journalist Yoshiko Ikoma, who served as MC/ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

President Onishi also spoke about his younger days and his memories of Daikanyama./ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

Participants wrote down their ideas on cards, such as "If Mitsukoshi or Isetan were like this, I'd want to go there every day!"/ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

Questions for President Onishi were raised one after another from the audience./ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

President Onishi holds the Wagyu beef served at the dinner table with the participants in the second half of the event./ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

Holding the chunk of Wagyu beef, Ikoma commented, "It weighs as much as a baby."/ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

"Actually, I wanted to be the manager of a family restaurant," President Onishi said, drawing gasps of surprise from the audience./ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

Participants also contributed various ideas about the future of department stores./ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

President Toyama created a poster that read, "Surpass Mitsukoshi! Yotsukoshi!" and showed it to President Onishi./ Photo by Hideyuki Seta

What did Isetan Mitsukoshi President Hiroshi Onishi say at the Daikanyama Rotary Club about his reasons for working at Isetan? [Event Report - Part 1]/ Photo by Hideyuki Seta