Word: kabuki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo conditions have long been dismal. All movies and theaters (except the ancient Kabuki plays) are closed. Rationing is strict, and there is little for sale. Night workers, miners and Navy personnel are permitted to buy vitamins. A bottle of about 300 pills is sold to authorized people for about 40?. Health conditions are wretched. All diseases of malnutrition (like beriberi) are rampant. The tuberculosis rate has risen steeply. Malaria is a scourge, probably because of water-filled bomb craters in which mosquitoes breed and because of infected veterans returning from the South Pacific. Typhoid is widespread, probably because...