Word: geishas
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...Emperor had chosen "Meiji setsu" -birthday of the Emperor Meiji, who made Japan a modern power and Shinto a war-inspiring state religion-to proclaim democracy. Tokyo's famous Meiji shrine staged a three-day festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
...girls strolled hand in hand with G.I.s beside the imperial moat. Children played with toy models of American "jeepu"; women copied U.S. fashions. In Tokyo a special school taught U.S. slang, and cinema fans queued up to see Hollywood movies (biggest hit: Tall in the Saddle, a Western). In geisha houses, the girls gaily crooned You Are My Sunshine...
...Geisha houses, brightly kimonoed girls plucked their banjo-like samisen and trilled sentimental Japanese favorites like the Rain Blues, the Song of Beauty, the Innocence Duet. When a boisterous American asked for the Japanese national anthem, the girls refused but obliged with You Are My Sunshine. Toshiko Yamaguchi, once one of Japan's most popular singers, came home from a Shanghai internment camp with a new repertoire that included Star Dust...
Later the eavesdropper took his story to a social club, a society of "wise elder" antimilitarist shopkeepers. They told a geisha girl, who told a Japanese employe of the Military Government, who told U.S. Army Lieut. Edward V. Neilsen; the laborer said he thought Jap officers had murdered his five or six companions because they "knew too much...
Discriminating geisha girls came near to swooning over him. Austere drama critics agreed that no Kabuki actor had mastered his art more perfectly. A great lover, onstage and off, lithe, handsome, 64-year-old Nizaemon Kataoka was Japan's Van Johnson, Alfred Lunt and John Barrymore rolled into...