Word: ginza
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...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...
Irish Mist. Honolulu hotspots run from the honky-tonks of Hotel Street to the posh tourist traps at Waikiki, but measured by the quality of the entertainment, they all amble along at their old, pre-statehood pace. The Japanese businessman at the Ginza Club sees the same show that titillates the sailors at Bill Pacheco's Oasis. The strippers could never make the big-time spots, but they sport the manufactured Stateside names that are the hallmark of their trade-Irish Mist, Martini Martin, etc. They are small competition for the low-paid song-and-dance girls imported from...
...Japanese supporter. Next day, Sukarno's Imperial Hotel suite had a hospital hush until late in the afternoon. Explained a wan Indonesian aide: "It was a very excellent party, but now I do not feel so well." Geisha Isozaki tripped merrily off to a fashionable shop on the Ginza and bought Sukarno a 24-karat gold ear-cleaner inscribed with his name-the sort of gift that, in Japan, is made only to intimates...