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...which could be changed at any time to western currency, to the yen which could not. Last week's events made them even more likely to continue this preference. For some 40,000 Japanese civilians and thousands of Army men who have thrown money about in the cafes geisha houses, bars and dance halls of Shanghai, the yen's fall meant that gaiety would become more expensive. Japanese officials began asking their nationals not to spend their yen in the International Settlement and the Japanese-sponsored Asia Development Board began a "thrift" campaign to cut down on "entertainment...
...eminent psychoanalysts who believe that when either is thwarted there are sad consequences. An extraordinary confirmation of this theory was noted last week by Tokyo's Asahi. Ryuichi Yoshikawa, a 27-year-old painter in Osaka, begged his parents and older brother to let him marry a geisha girl. They refused. That night, while the family slept, Ryuichi got a heavy knife and methodically chopped off the heads of his father, mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law, six-year-old nephew and three-year-old niece...
...same Japanese heat wave did the Army some good. Ablaze with patriotism, Japanese geisha girls announced that they would charge one additional yen (20?) to each patron every time he complained of the heat, the money going to the Army fund. Girls from one popular tea house had collected over $100 by week's end. Heat, patriotism and disability caused Shimezo Maho, Tokyo merchant, to jump into the cold Pacific off the island Oshinta, leaving his $3,000 life insurance policy also to the Army fund...
...prolific cinema industry is not a serious menace. Story of Kimiko concerns a domestic crisis in the up-to-date Yamamoto family. Thinking to arrange a reconciliation between her mother, Etsuko Yamamoto, with whom she lives, and her father, Shunsaku Yamamoto, who long ago ran off with a geisha girl, pert Daughter Kimiko Yamamoto goes to visit Shunsaku, get his consent to her marriage. Up to this point, the plot of Kimiko somewhat resembles that of Universal's Three Smart Girls (TIME, Dec. 21). The end of the picture not only differs from its U. S. counterpart but offers...
While the N.Y.K. strikers went off to their temples to pray for success, Osaka night spots welcomed back from a Buddhist temple the town's most popular Geisha girls. For eight days they had sit-down-struck, huddling at a temple in the hills, taking an icy "purification bath" nude each morning in the forest, then kneeling on hard, cold rocks for half an hour as they prayed for success. Such rigors were too much for Geisha Fukuko Miyamoto who slipped away one morning to the cosy town where, gnawed by pangs of remorse, she poisoned herself and died...