"Diamond-tini" stirs Japan bubble era memories

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Bartender Shingo Kawahara drops a one-carat diamond into a martini, priced at 1.8 million yen ($15,000), at the Ritz Carlton in Tokyo May 1, 2007. Two decades after Japan's ''bubble economy'', when the ostentatiously wealthy sprinkled gold on food and drank pink Dom Perignon champagne by the magnum, the glass is filling again in the Land of the Rising Sun with a cocktail on rare ice. Picture taken May 1, 2007. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota