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...native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed's big Osawa Trading Co. They waved a streamer proclaiming: "Welcome Princeton, Orange and Black Brothers...
...schoolchildren's pilgrimages were stopped. Shrine attendance dropped 50% to 70%; the gods, in failing to protect their country, had lost face. Many shrines had to rent out space to businesses-some even rented their grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token of respect...
Mileage Change. In Nagoya, Japan, arrested for snatching a woman's purse at a race track, Policeman Umeichi Fujita explained: "I needed the money for carfare to get back to my beat...
Died. Kokichi Mikimoto, 95, onetime noodle merchant who became the world's largest producer of cultured pearls; of a kidney ailment; in Nagoya, Japan. Perfecting by trial and error a method of seeding oysters known since the 13th century (a fleck of sand or a tiny bead is forced into the oyster, which seeks to counteract the irritant by coating it with layer upon layer of pearl-making nacre), spry, fun-loving Mikimoto (who entertained his employees with feats of magic and parasol-twirling) scandalized Paris in 1913, when he first brought his quarter-price pearls to the international...
...Nagoya, Japan...