Sure Japan is expensive, but you’d think $500 would buy an old pair of sneakers. Not if they are last year’s yellow-and-gray Air Max model by Nike, which sells for more than $1,000 in one of the oddest fashion trends since Soviet-era Russians paid 100 bucks for tourists’ old Levi’s. The mania for these collector’s-item […]
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