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Japanese women "have been taught to hate you. They do as their men tell them, and many of them have been told to kill you. Sex is one of the oldest and most effective weapons in history. The Geisha girl knows how to wield it charmingly. She may entice you only to poison you. She may slit your throat. Stay away from the women of Japan - all of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Harvest | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...bore him four children and kept him abroad until His Majesty's Government threatened to cut off his funds). Back in Tokyo, he lived fast. He gambled-not for money but for whiskey (i.e., he paid off by taking two drinks every time he lost). He patronized geisha houses. He liked to drive at top speed in his maroon Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Task and Taskmaster | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Nippon at Home | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No Rats or Crows -- Yet | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conservatives | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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