Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm family, in desperate need, has returned to the old but recently outlawed custom of selling off a daughter to some enterprising brothel keeper in exchange for ready cash. So far this year, the Hokkaido prefectural police headquarters reported, 1,454 girls have been sold to restaurants, brothels and geisha houses, and 1,040 persons had been charged with brokerage in girls. Some teenagers have been sold for $15; in rare instances, more attractive girls have gone for as high...
...college seniors have jobs in sight. The U.S. occupation taught the Sun Tribers to scorn the way of their ancestors but did not replace it with a direction they could respect. From the Americans they took only the easy externals. Their uniform is as standard as that of a geisha: the "Shintaro" crew cut and aloha sports shirts for the men, with loose-flowing Byronic shirts, zoot coats and pointed suede shoes for city wear; toreador pants for the girls with hair cut like a mop and often dyed red; and over all, an attitude of abandonment and deep...
Captain Fisby tries desperately to Get Down to Business, but Sakini keeps slyly bringing him pleasure in the form of the local geisha girl, name of Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo). He pleads eloquently for the erection of a pentagon-shaped schoolhouse, but Tobiki has suddenly worked up a democratic impulse to build a teahouse for its geisha girl to work in. In the end, when Colonel Purdy drops in for a surprise inspection, he sees before him a peculiar democratic vista. Captain Fisby, wandering around town in sandals and kimono, is directing the operations of the Tobiki Brewing...
...worship his God?" they protested in handbills and newspaper ads. By way of answer, city hall pointed gleefully to at least one priest who had absconded with some 9,000,000 yen contributed by visitors at his temple, spent 2.000,000 of it on geisha girls and cabarets and the rest on a sloe-eyed model whom he set up as mistress of her own bar. Admitting that "perhaps some priests have become a bit too worldly," the abbot of Zen Daitokuji Temple insisted nevertheless that one bad priest should not be used to damn the entire clergy. The priests...
...abandoned his entrusted mission." Last week the Communist magazine Shinso (Truth) claimed to have discovered the "real facts" about Shida. According to Shinso, all the time Shida had supposedly been performing dark deeds of underground violence, he had really been spending the party's money "merrymaking with geisha girls," in the disguise of "Mr. P., a company owner." Shida had bought himself expensive clothes, donned black-rimmed glasses, grown a big mustache. Sometimes for three nights running he would drink four to six quarts of sake at a Tokyo geisha house called the Big Bamboo. He lavished so much...