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Among its other rigors: Night Tokyo, for example, forbids cheek-to-cheek dancing, suspends hosts ten days for kissing clients, and sacks them for "impure relations." Insists Night Tokyo Manager Hideo Hoshii: "Nothing impure goes on around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Just a Gigolo-san | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...Good day" in Japanese is Konnichi wa (literal translation: "As for today . . ."). Another idiom: to say "I want whiskey," Japanese observe politely Toki-doki uisuki ga hoshii desu ("Now and then whiskey is desirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Japanese in Ten Lessons | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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