Word: ginza
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...favors in the great cities of the world, and he observed that "Negroes, their pigmentation of skin notwithstanding, are at least taller and straighter than the Japanese and perhaps have a greater sex appeal." All this created waves of giggles among the good-time girls of the Ginza bars, but it was scarcely calculated to win smiles of approval from officials at the Gaimushyo (Foreign Ministry...
...executive-san concerned. They are paid, no questions asked. The Japanese executive has the world's most generous expense account for nocturnal diversions. A government survey found that in 1967, Japanese businessmen spent $1.4 billion on nontaxable "official entertainment." The 1,140 bars along Tokyo's Ginza depend on the free-spending businessman, who likes to do his entertaining away from wife and home. If it were not for the golden fringes, the main streets of Tokyo-and many other great cities-would be dull indeed after dark...
Despite his acknowledged indebtedness to Western artists, Ikeda's work also reflects Japanese life and artistic traditions. While supporting himself by doing portraits of bar patrons along Tokyo's Ginza (at 280 apiece), he studied older graphic techniques, and from them evolved his own distinctive style, in which he scratches directly on a metal plate with an etching needle to obtain a nervous, dramatically blurred line. "Why do Westerners insist that Japanese artists remain 'quaint' and 'traditional' in order to fit their image of artistry in Japan?" he asks. "We dress just as Americans...
...commander, Lin made his debut against the Japanese the high point of his military career: at dawn on Sept. 25, 1937, Lin's men ambushed the Japanese Itagaki Division in the shadow of the Great Wall. The defeat is still recalled with awe in the bars of the Ginza, where former Japanese officers recognize Lin as a master tactician...
...Teeny-Weeny Wonder." In Tokyo's nightspots there are girls to suit every male personality. Ladies' Town on the Ginza assuages the married man's conscience (and concupiscence) with girls dressed in long, satin bridal gowns and lacy veils; the Aho (Idiot) Club in the Ueno District outfits its girls in crisp white nurses' uniforms and pale blue caps. There are bars with girls in sailor suits (to conjure up memories of the Imperial Navy), others where the intellectual clientele is served by misses who have read every literary quarterly...