If you ever have the chance to meet Lu Nagata, you will never forget her style and determination.
A highly accomplished artist and entrepreneur, the 29-year-old Nagata is responsible for introducing pole dancing to Japan as an art form and as a form of exercise.
Since 2007, she has also owned and managed Art Flow, a dance and fitness studio in Tokyo's uptown Akasaka area.
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