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And at age 52, moved to tokyo to start all over again. i was determined to track him down and see what the hell he was doing. these days, this great man is running a 14 seat sushi bar in the minato district of tokyo. his wife, naomi, is his only helper. >> yasuda: uh, welcome to new place. uh, thank you for coming. >> anthony: why did you do such a hard thing? >> yasuda: uh, this city, uh, tokyo, this is kind of the -- the mecca of the sushi. so, i just want to be the sushi chef in tokyo. >> anthony: yasuda is a friend, and my master in the sense that he's taught me pretty much everything i kn...

Uh, thank you for coming. >> anthony: why did you do such a hard thing? >> yasuda: uh, this city, uh, tokyo, this is kind of the -- the mecca of the sushi. so, i just want to be the sushi chef in tokyo. >> anthony: yasuda is a friend, and my master in the sense that he's taught me pretty much everything i know about sushi over the years. he's a very, very interesting and complex man, who constantly surprises. >> yasuda: tony-san, this wasabi is one of the most expensive wasabi. so, i wait, wait, wait. uh, finally, this one goes to the, uh, discount box. then, i bought this. >> anthony: that's ...

>> yasuda: uh, welcome to new place. uh, thank you for coming. >> anthony: why did you do such a hard thing? >> yasuda: uh, this city, uh, tokyo, this is kind of the -- the mecca of the sushi. so, i just want to be the sushi chef in tokyo. >> anthony: yasuda is a friend, and my master in the sense that he's taught me pretty much everything i know about sushi over the years. he's a very, very interesting and complex man, who constantly surprises. >> yasuda: tony-san, this wasabi is one of the most expensive wasabi. so, i wait, wait, wait. uh, finally, this one goes to the, uh, discount box. the...

Techniques of new york city legend naomichi yasuda. until recently, the chef partner of one of the very best, if not the best sushi restaurant in new york, the eponymous sushi yasuda. a short while ago, under very mysterious and completely misreported circumstances, he left the manhattan restaurant which still bears his name. and at age 52, moved to tokyo to start all over again. i was determined to track him down and see what the hell he was doing. these days, this great man is running a 14 seat sushi bar in the minato district of tokyo. his wife, naomi, is his only helper. >> yasuda: uh, wel...

History is so boring in school is because it's all top down, all about big leaders and dates and kings and presidents and things like that, when, in fact, the real history that has sort of meaning for us is billion bottom-up history. it's interested in so-called ordinary people. and the first thing you understand when you get into that granular level is there are no ordinary people. >> frederick douglass, the son of a slave and a white man. >> i appear this evening as a thief and robber. i stole this hair and these limbs, this body from my master. >> that's what makes them special. he's not ju...