Word: ishida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eighteen years long-haired, bespectacled vaudevillian Ichimatsu Ishida has been convulsing the Japs with his sharp, satirical songs on the contemporary scene. A score of times his tuneful wit (needling Tojo for wordy communiques, the Zaibatsu for war profiteering in Manchuria, etc.) has landed him in jail. Last month it Landed him in Japan's new Diet, as the head of his own one-candidate Japan Fair Argument Party. Last week a song got him in trouble again...
...speak English?" sang Ishida. "Yes, I can. Please give me chocolate. I love you. You love me. Kiss me again. Goodbye." The song brought down the house, although only the males in the audience applauded...
Next day the Nippon show was closed. Diet Member Ishida was on the carpet at Allied Headquarters. Said he: the songs might have been "a little careless . . . but words of advice and warning must be given to Japanese girls...