Word: ginza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Osaka and Kobe to Tokyo, up & down the Ginza (Tokyo's Broadway) and through the Shinjuku (Tokyo's Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...
...some of the scars of bomb destruction. The crowds that haggle over prices in Tokyo's Shimbashi market are only slightly better dressed than they were four years ago. High priced Tokyo shops sell "fancy silk ties, brocade purses and delicate chinaware, but few can afford them. The Ginza's humbler stalls have stacks of hardware and kitchen utensils, but still at soaring black-market prices. Chubby new autos (toyoda toyopetto, or "pet cars") chug along streets once monopolized by occupation vehicles-but most Japanese still wait in dreary queues for rickety buses...
Today we have eight TIME & LIFE men sending us daily reports from conquered Nippon. We have opened an office on the famous (and garish) Ginza, complete with two reception rooms the last tenant used for ceremonial tea drinking...
...Japan, crossing one of the canals in the heart of the city, and most Japanese towns boast a copy of Tokyo's Nihonbashi. Many streets are pleasantly named for flowers, trees and beasts. Exceptions: Anjin-cho (pilot street), named for Will Adams, first Englishman to visit Japan; the Ginza ("mint for silver coins"), Tokyo's main street, combining the worst features of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and the Atlantic City boardwalk. Signs in Roman characters along the Ginza were often just a little wrong: "Milk Snop"; "Barber Shot"; "Traunks & Bugs...
...Ginza Goes. Actually Emperor Hirohito's property was only touched-this time. The Ginza, Tokyo's retail thoroughfare (once called "the busiest, noisiest, unhandsomest and most flamboyant of metropolitan streets"), was reported a mass of flames. Tokyo Week has cost the U.S. 31 Superfortresses or $18,600,000 in equipment and something for which there was no price-the lives of about 350 men. Since the B-29 attacks began, six months ago, the U.S. had lost 74 Superfortresses, carrying some 800 airmen. Japan had lost more than one-fifth of its capital...