Word: ginza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revelers in the Ginza cocktail lounge looked like any other gathering of Japanese junior executives: a bit soft around the middle, a bit busky-cheeked from golf and gin, affluent and amiable. The song they were singing sent a charge of shock through the bar: "Monday and Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday, Friday and Friday.". It was a battle song of the Japanese Imperial Navy, extolling daily dedication to the glory of Nippon. As the singing died away, the men spontaneously turned to reminiscences of Rabaul and Savo Island, Bataan and Okinawa. "Wasn't it great," said one, "those...
...from a few score to a present-day 539 in the heart of the city. One parlor was installed in a former bar with the pool behind the counter and the bar stools used as perches for fishermen. Saburo Kamekura, manager of an air-condi tioned establishment on the Ginza, To kyo's Fifth Avenue, claims 1,000 cus tomers a day. There, pretty young girls in Bermuda shorts cry "Sugoi! [terrif ic!]" when customers land a big one. Kamekura boasts that he is performing a badly needed service: "When it comes to doing away with the strains...
...Ginza. Though smaller than California in area, Japan, with 97 million inhabitants, is five times as populous. Moreover it is caught up in a vast migration from rural areas to cities, especially to the 350-mile-long megalopolis stretching from Tokyo to Osaka. The result is a spiraling real estate inflation that has lifted Japan's urban-land price index 670% since 1955, has made land in Japan the most expensive in the world. Frontage on the gilded Ginza shopping thoroughfare in central Tokyo sells for as much as $18 million per acre v. top prices of about...
...made, as well as great directors such as Akira Kurosawa. Tokyo has 32,000 restaurants-nearly twice as many as New York. The best of the Japanese establishments can cost as much as $30 per person for food and geisha entertainment, but at sukiyaki and tempura houses like the Ginza's Suehiro and Tenichi, prices are moderate. Tokyo also has excellent Western dining spots, such as Lohmeyer's (German) and the Crescent (French), as well as Liu Yuan, a four-story Chinese restaurant that ranks with the best in the world...
...minimum, Tokyo boasts 30,000 establishments where a man or woman can have a drink. Prostitutes used to be everywhere, but a 1958 antiprostitution law scattered them to the winds, except for those who reappeared' as "bar hostesses." In the Ginza, Akasaka, Shimbashi, Shinjuku and Asakusa districts, such swank bars and nightclubs as Le Rat Mort offer unusual entertainment at prices that can be as exorbitant as anywhere in the world...