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Clip-clopping on high heels, a smartly dressed girl turned into a narrow alley behind Tokyo's famed Ginza one morning last week, passed half a dozen tawdry sake shops and headed for a three-story building with an imposing marble entrance lettered in gold: "Jujin Hospital." Smaller but more significant was the legend: "Home of the Japanese Society of Cosmetic Medicine." By going to Jujin, patients can not only gain face but new faces...
...Ginza & Gardens. Tokyo's daily vital statistics include 340 births, 128 deaths, 256 weddings, 20 divorces and 6 suicides. Despite the fact that 400 new buildings are going up monthly, Tokyo is still suffering a staggering (400,000) housing shortage. The current price of land along the famed Ginza is $4,160 for four square yards. The prewar regulation limiting the number of nightclubs has long since been forgotten. Tokyo now has 35,000 bars, 2,000 brothels and 73,000 foreign civilian residents (including 10,000 Americans...
...music all week. Prague, the only city that applauded Don Giovanni while Mozart was alive, had a Mozart Week. Moscow presented Figaro at the Bolshoi Theater. Even Japan is broadcasting homage on its five radio stations and their networks, while Tokyo department stores display pictures of the composer in Ginza windows...
Downtown on the Ginza, a big department store was doing a hotcakes business in a $3,000 "bride's special" -wedding kimono, TV set, gas range, refrigerator, washing machine, furniture, trousseau and a supply of salad dressing -while the enterprising hotelkeepers of Atami, Japan's Niagara Falls, offered special rates on honeymoon suites with "a bathtub just big enough for two." November is Japan's traditional wedding season,* and with 700,000 couples either wed or affianced, this year's season promises to be perhaps the biggest since World...
...Tokyo businessman put it more crudely. "Yoshida," he said, "sold Japan from under his kimono, like a Parisian selling dirty pictures. Hatoyama is different. He is like a brand-new shopkeeper on the Ginza - his door is open to everybody...