Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presumably, they will try to goad Tanaka into disastrous faux pas. Presumably also they will needle him about his yeasty private business and personal interests; he has made questionable land deals and one Tokyo newspaper, the Mainichi Daily News, charged that some of those deals involved a former Tokyo geisha named Kazuko Tsuji, who is alleged to have been Tanaka's mistress and the mother of two of his children...
...occasion, Tanaka's frankness verges on the coarse. In his 1966 autobiography, which he hands out to visitors to the sprawling Tokyo mansion where he lives with his wife Hanako, he tells of being offered a geisha to sleep with one night toward the end of the war, during his contractor days. Tanaka chivalrously sent her home because she looked "too fragile," but the memory of the encounter, he writes, grows "increasingly more vivid" with time. At times, Tanaka indulges in sentimentality. On the long flight to Honolulu last month, he dashed off several sayings in Chinese calligraphy, which...
...previous monthly army pay, 20 yen, is one two-thousandth of the pay for the same rank today. "Before the war," he laments, "I could have a perfectly satisfying evening out on a mere 10-yen note. Now you might spend 10,000 yen and the geisha will still say no." Yokoi is increasingly concerned about how he will earn those yen. "If I turn tailor again, as I was before the war, I would only go broke; I would be disqualified from the very first step, bargaining the price of a suit length...
...cash is needed not for television coverage, which is free, but for more or less openly buying delegate votes. Already the lavish wooing of the 478 delegates voting in next week's election is being conducted in the expensive geisha restaurants of Tokyo's Akasaka district. According to widely circulated rumors, a delegate can receive $1,500 for merely attending one of these persuasion sessions. If he promises his support, the reward can jump to as high as $15,000 for an ordinary delegate and $30,000 for the leader of a faction. In some cases, the faction...
...Geisha Girls. Halaby is in a race against time. As the economy gains speed, air travel is certain to pick up. Last week Pan Am officials announced a 1.5% rise over 1970 in passenger revenue miles for the month of September. This year depreciation write-offs on Pan Am's 747s and an $80 million sale-and-lease-back arrangement with the Port of New York Authority on a maintenance facility at New York's Kennedy Airport will probably hold losses down close to last year's level. Halaby has also pledged to improve marketing and service...