Word: atami
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another correspondent was murdered by a former Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl friend tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with him at the time of the murder. She was fired, married her American and they went honeymooning at Atami hot springs. A telegram came from her studio: in view of her "democratic sacrifice," all was forgiven, and the big role was hers after all. Fadeout...
...Atami is a resort town near Yokohama where, according to Terry's Guide to the Japanese Empire, "certain of the spots are so extraordinarily romantic that they lure one to suicide...
...unpainted clapboard shack in Tokyo's gutted east end, a middle-aged Japanese laborer sat on the floor with his family and, in tune with his three-tube radio, hummed the Atami Blues...
Every beggar now has two or three 100-yen notes, once as rare in Japan as a $100 bill in the U.S. Half-yen notes are used as nose-wipers. A group of men spent 35,000 yen on a night's spree at the seaside resort of Atami, taking care to bring their own slaughtered cow for food. Five pounds of black-market rice would fetch 5,000 to 7,000 yen (official price...