Word: bath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benefits to Tokyo far beyond those of the mountains and the open sea. There, thanks to Konomi, Tokyo's gangsters, plutocrats, diplomats, legislators and sybarites could shake off the dust of the city in a palace rivaling Roman Cara-calla's wildest dreams. It boasted 50 private bath and massage rooms tended by a corps of 130 cute, almond-eyed masseuses in pale blue bras and panties. Miss Turko, they all called themselves, in keeping with the Turkish atmosphere...
Lesser functionaries, just as cute, dispensed beer, food, soft drinks and cigarettes. There was a mass milk bath for sensitive males in a huge, raspberry-tiled tub on the second floor; a lemonade bath for ladies on the first. There were private rooms with beds and attendants for after-bath relaxation, a roof garden, a nightclub, a tea room, three restaurants, a barber and a beauty shop. Visitors (among them Errol Flynn) and customers, spending a relaxed Saturday evening at Konomi's Hot Springs, thought nothing of getting a bill of $100 or more. It was, in short...
...Sanitary. All would have been well had not Konomi's bath water seeped out of the Welfare Ministry and under the door of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs...
Many a Tokyo diplomat, particularly those from China, Indonesia and the Philippines, had paused even while enjoying' his bath, to ask how a country so impoverished that it could not pay reparations could still afford such a bathtub. Their questions finally reached Premier Yoshida...
There was a sudden scurry of well bathed legislators and diplomats for cover. "I gave strict orders at the time I saw the blueprints," alibied one Welfare Ministry official, "that beds should not be provided in rooms attached to the baths, since this is not sanitary." "I saw some half-naked girls running around on the second floor," admitted an investigating Diet member, "but I got the impression that they were not all bad girls." He did feel, he added, that "due to international repercussions, something should be done." So did most everyone else. The trouble was-what? Nice...