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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...
Melons & Minks. They have been getting more importunate every day. Some 2,000,000 strong, twice as numerous as the district's daytime human population, the Ginza rat kingdom seems to have been caught up in a revolution of rodent expectations. No longer content with their network of underground rivers and sewers, armies of rats now prowl the Ginza every night after the cabarets have closed and before department stores open. Rats with affluent tastes gorge themselves on such fancy groceries as melons, leather furniture and mink coats. One gormandizing rat pack even held up construction...
Last week Tokyo's sanitation department joined forces with a passel of private exterminators in an all-out campaign to keep the Ginza for people. With military precision, anti-rat guerrillas fanned out through darkened department stores in stockinged feet, coordinating their offensive by means of walkie-talkies. "This is C Team calling B Team." whispered one communications man to the unit on the floor below him. "I hear rats on the eastern side of the floor scurrying down. Close door immediately. Over...
Meatballs & Mikes. For weapons, the rat hunters mostly used a supply of 300,000 poisoned meatballs-about one for every six or eight rats believed to be in the Ginza. Exterminators bugged ratholes with tiny microphones so as to detect enemy strongholds. They also planted extra-strong traps that are normally used to trap mink, since Ginza rats are a special samurai breed that can usually chew through a conventional trap. The hunters had no illusions about their foe. "The Ginza rats are terribly clever," said one old rodent fighter. "You can't just leave a meatball...
...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...