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...have severely been trimmed, radically changing the lives of many salarymen. The Ginza in Tokyo once sported 4,000 clubs where businessmen passed the late hours drinking, eating and chatting with young hostesses. Several hundred clubs have been forced to close, and many more are up for sale. Yuri Hirota, mama-san at the Club 48, used to keep an employee at the phone all night doing nothing but summoning hard-to-get taxis. Now cabs can be hailed by stepping out the door, but penny-pinching customers prefer to take trains -- and since the last ones leave...
...balance, while most people who charge the U.S. with "war crimes" use the term loosely, U.S. practices in South Viet Nam are suspect. Moreover, there are troubling legal precedents set by the Tokyo trial of Japanese leaders after World War II. One defendant was Koki Hirota, Foreign Minister during Japan's 1937 "rape" of Nanking. Though Hirota had protested the atrocities, the Tokyo tribunal found him guilty of not "insisting before the Cabinet" that they be halted immediately. Hirota received a death sentence and was executed. Where does this leave U.S. Cabinet officers...
...were: Hideki Tojo, wartime Premier of Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...
...chapel, Hirota heard the cries. "What is that?" he asked. "Manzai?" (Manzai is the word for "comedy.") "Ah, banzai; I understand. Let us do it, too." The banzais of the three echoed out to the four in the courtyard...
None of the defendants quailed; one or two were so old and infirm that they hardly seemed to know what was happening. When quiet, grey ex-Premier Koki Hirota heard his death sentence, he closed his eyes, then turned to look at his weeping family in the gallery. It was the last time he would see them. Japanese newsmen, who had not expected death for Hirota, murmured: "Hidoi! Hidoi!" (harsh, harsh...