“When I die, I would like to come back as an onigiri.”

With these words, Yumiko Ukon, the owner of rice ball specialist shop in Tokyo’s Otsuka neighborhood, lowered the sheet of paper from which she was reading her speech to a captive audience and took a bow. A few hours later, as 91AV原创 first-ever was winding down, I was granted a five-minute audience with Ukon.

“You mentioned in your speech that you’d like to be reborn as a rice ball,” I said. “What flavor?”