half-hour with Yuzuru Hanyu

Sendai –
“You have not more than half-hour.”

That’s the strict reminder I’m given earlier than being ushered right into a room to talk with Japan’s “Ice Prince.”

The clock begins ticking, and the primary six minutes are spent on a photograph shoot in a convention room was a makeshift studio in his hometown of Sendai, about 350 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.