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...Once at Dogashima, hop on the $7 sightseeing boat for a 20-minute tour of the region's famed craggy, tree-topped rock islets that invoke Japanese classical landscape paintings. Before getting back on the bus, the musically inclined should check out the Kayama Yuzo museum, a shrine to a famous old-time crooner who does a not-half-bad rendition of Blue Suede Shoes, which on occasion blasts from the loudspeakers just outside the building...
These are middle-class girls from good schools. Many sign up for the money, which they use to buy expensive designer clothes. But according to Rika Kayama, a psychiatrist who specializes in young women's difficulties, the high school girls are as eager for anonymous companionship as the men are for a sexual thrill. "I do this to kill time," says one, "and because my friend asked me to do it." She is 18, just graduated from a Christian high school in Tokyo, and makes about $16 an hour. Sometimes the work is unpleasant. "The old guys want to talk...
...What. Red Beard is an oriental Pilgrim's Progress. In 19th century Japan, an ambitious young doctor (Yuzo Kayama) pays a formal call on the director of a public-health clinic. There he is shocked to find that he has been given a post as a mere intern...
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