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Word: bonenkai (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

Before they can celebrate the New Year, the Japanese must eradicate all memory of the old. Last week they were eradicating it with kamikaze-like abandon in a venerable tradition called bonenkai (forget the year past), and nowhere more suicidally than on Tokyo's gleaming Ginza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Merry Bonenkoi | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...American occupation, parade in sandwich boards that proclaim the virtues (or lack of them) of such establishments as Le Rat Mort and the Eyebrow Club, Romance Town and the Club Bum Bum Room. Finally come the customers-Japanese businessmen and executives, laden with yen and the ghosts of bonenkai past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Merry Bonenkoi | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...Tokyo's most luscious hostesses, as well as a 16-page leatherbound wine list in which choices range from $5.80 for a thimble of Hennessy brandy to $1.50 for "aerated water," otherwise known as Coca-Cola. During the Christmas season, the Mikado offers its customers an all-purpose bonenkai kit containing champagne, smoked oysters, a noisemaker and a tinseled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Merry Bonenkoi | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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