Word: jujin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...patient been her mother's age, with bags under her eyes, she could have had these removed for $13.88. Building up the bust, sometimes done with tissue injections of which U.S. surgeons strongly disapprove, costs $55 to $83. The Jujin surgeons' success is attested by the fact that they do 20,000 cosmetic operations a year-70% on the eyelids, 20% to build up the bridge of the nose, often with a plastic insert (which costs...
...Jujin's eyelid surgery technique was devised by the hospital's director, Dr. Fumio Umezawa, 52, who got into plastic surgery after his own child was disfigured in an accident, needed extensive reconstruction. "The thing I like best," says Umezawa, "is to stand at the door and watch the faces of the patients as they leave. The happiness they feel enhances the work we have done for them. They look beautiful...