Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switch day, swarms of almond-eyed hostesses at Tokyo's splashy Kinbasha nightclub were offering their hard-earned MPCs for 10? on the dollar. One geisha house announced bitterly that henceforth it would do business "for the Japanese yen or the green American dollar only." An Army captain who had been trying for two months to sell his second-hand car for $2,100 was besieged by frantic Japanese car dealers offering him up to $5,000 in MPCs. In Korea the black-market price for $10 MPC dropped from 3,500 to 100 hwan by nightfall. Koreans pursued...
...foundation in the records. For a time, however, the grey line almost died out of racing. The line was resuscitated by a French grey named Le Sancy foaled in 1884. Le Sancy's blood passed down to a powerful procreator named Roi Herode. The Dancer's grey dam, Geisha, is a great-great granddaughter of Roi Herode...
...Geisha Galas. As investigators looked deeper into Ito's financial shenanigans, they found a trail that led, indirectly, to scores of respected businessmen and government officials. A Tokyo moneylender whom police linked to Ito's financial operations said that these were small compared to the way subsidized shipbuilders used government money to bribe officials for more subsidies. The moneylender backed up his story with a list of wild geisha parties thrown by shipbuilders and subcontractors for government officials, including seven members of Yoshida's Cabinet. Altogether, 600 geishas were involved in the parties. Soon 100 suspects, among...
...large, the women in Tokyo agreed that the principal problem still facing Japanese women is men. In many rural districts, they pointed out, Japanese fathers are still selling their daughters into slavery, often for as little as $15. Japanese husbands still prefer the company of geisha girls to that of their wives. Women still get only half the pay of men for the same jobs, and more than half of Japanese marriages are still arranged by contract without regard to the bride's choice. Nevertheless, doughty Socialist Diet Member Ichiko Kamichika told her sisters, "The Japanese woman of today...
...days gone by," recalls clean-shaven Professor Sato, "a [Japanese] professor wore a fine mustache, carried a cane, and commuted directly from the geisha house to the classroom in a jinricksha . . . Now, after 31 years of teaching. I return home with a monthly salary of 36,150 yen [$100]. I give the envelope to my wife . . . Usually, this sort of conversation ensues...