Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Traces of war are noticeable everywhere." Japanese women, including geisha girls, have discarded their traditional wide-sleeved, broad-belted kimonos, now wear mompeis (long trousers bound tightly at the ankles). They are more practical for running, jumping, climbing and fire fighting "in the event of air raids." Many Japanese women are "compelled to work ten or more hours in a factory; even those who are not directly drafted for war work have their specific duties...
...Taxes and national savings will be "strengthened." (Already a man pays 30% tax on his movie ticket, a 30-60% tax on his lunch, a 200% tax on his geisha fee.) > Business "control organs," which, under a truce between Big Business and the Army, regulate production, wages and hours, will be drastically reformed. > Holidays will be curtailed. Tojo's Fears. Of the 2,900 words in Tojo's address, Italy was not one. But the Italian collapse, Tojo knew, did more than remove an ally. It Also foreshadowed stronger Anglo-U.S. pressure in the Pacific, and dented...
Cried he: "The moral crisis is evident from the wave of licentiousness . . . which is now having such a rage in America. . . . What Russia did under the Bolsheviks in the twenties, what Germany did in the thirties, and what Japan practiced with her Geisha girls has now become introduced into American life. . . . Joined with this is the elevation of Bacchus to a new position...
...reconcile the old samurai code of honor with the dishonorable course they think Japan must pursue. Anything goes in Bushido. After the old generations of simple-minded warriors are dead, no one but the long-suffering Japanese women remain to oppose the treachery by which the brandy-bibbing, geisha-gluttonous Fureno circle plots to overwhelm Asia and fight it out with America...
Every Japanese has been limited to one cotton towel a year. Foreign news films have disappeared from the theatres. There is strict rationing of gauze, absorbent cotton, condensed and powdered milk. Picture post cards or magazine pictures of Imperial and military buildings, factories, other landmarks, have been prohibited. Geisha girls cannot have permanent waves, fancy coiffeurs, heavy makeup, manicures, high heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard...