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...reconcile the old samurai code of honor with the dishonorable course they think Japan must pursue. Anything goes in Bushido. After the old generations of simple-minded warriors are dead, no one but the long-suffering Japanese women remain to oppose the treachery by which the brandy-bibbing, geisha-gluttonous Fureno circle plots to overwhelm Asia and fight it out with America...
Every Japanese has been limited to one cotton towel a year. Foreign news films have disappeared from the theatres. There is strict rationing of gauze, absorbent cotton, condensed and powdered milk. Picture post cards or magazine pictures of Imperial and military buildings, factories, other landmarks, have been prohibited. Geisha girls cannot have permanent waves, fancy coiffeurs, heavy makeup, manicures, high heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard...
...winter was near. Rice was scarce. The Government recently felt obliged to reduce the diameter of match sticks from .072 to .06 of an inch. Women patrolled Tokyo last week handing out cards to luxuriously dressed people which admonished "right recognition of the present situation in the country." Geisha girls had been instructed not to accompany their clients to the theatre, on flower-viewing trips, or on walks. Actors were told to "exercise self-admonition in acting, refraining from expressions suggestive of loose ideas." Excursion traveling by boat or train was prohibited. Brothels' hours were limited to between...
...them have been hired by the Government as Peeping Thomasinas. Some of them loiter around the luxury counters of department stores, taking notes on their sisters who squander yen on beauty creams instead of patriotically investing in Government bonds. Other, luckier maidens, steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip right inside the house to get a good...
With a good eye for detail, Mr. Gunther remembers a Tokyo night-club sign in English: WINE WOMEN SONG AND WHATNOT. Illustrating Japanese lack of tact: Geisha girls, entertaining a U. S. naval officer who had been on the U. S. S. Panay when it was bombed and sunk by the Japanese, kept repeating all evening: "Panay! Panay! So sorry! So sorry!" Typical Japanese Army reasoning: Capitalism is responsible for communism, hence to defeat communism capitalism must be overthrown. Author Gunther also picked up a warning that the Japanese are capable of committing hara-kiri on a national as well...