Word: ginza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the Ginza, Tokyo's garish main stem, a bar girl has to be able to handle all types-but even so. there's a limit. It came for one Ginza doll last week when. as she put it. "I felt something playing footsie with me under the table." Said she: "I figured it was the customer; but the game went on after he excused himself. Then I looked down, and there was this huge rat trying to pry some meat out from under my foot. Sure. I knew we had rats, but when they get that familiar...
...Riken cartel after the war, Ichimura made it Japan's biggest photocopying-machine producer. He rapidly moved into manufacturing cameras and watches, set up a lingerie factory, won a Coca-Cola franchise, and last month opened a ten-story ladies' apparel store on Tokyo's Ginza. Ichimura attributes his unusual career to an equally unusual source: "a Great Sulk" that began when, at 15, he was refused money to attend an acrobatic show-and ended only when he decided to go into business for himself...
...Tokyo's gaudy Ginza was early in recognizing the onrush of another of the overnight emotional flip-flops characteristic of Japan's volatile people. It celebrated Kennedy's election with free beer for all males who could prove they were the same age as the Senator. In Tokyo offices, "I'm 43, too" became the boast of junior executives on the rise. Suddenly in the limelight was onetime Imperial Navy Lieut. Commander Kohei Hanami, who broke into print rejoicing that when his destroyer sliced a U.S. PT boat in two in 1943, Lieut, (j.g.) Jack Kennedy...
...began in June, when an unknown teen-age girl strolled down Tokyo's bustling Ginza with what appeared to be a baby Martian clinging to her arm. Almost overnight the boom was on. By last week, in the hottest craze to hit Japan since the Hula Hoop, Tokyo department stores were filled with scrambling, stumbling, shoving teen-agers fighting to spend 180 yen (50?) for a squeaking, winking, black-skinned dakkochan ("embraceable") doll...
...cancellation of Ike's visit, Kishi angrily blamed the situation on a "minority mob." With their peculiar obtuseness, Japanese reporters murmured something about widespread "social unrest." Snapped Kishi: "There are baseball games being played right now to capacity crowds. Movie theaters have packed houses. Here in Tokyo, the Ginza is full of happy-looking pedestrians." Kishi spoke the truth. The Wednesday night riot that frightened his Cabinet was confined to a small area around the Diet. At the height of the uproar, there was a brisk and continuous flow of taxis and private cars scarcely a block away...