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...goes back centuries to a bygone world of tiny, meticulously tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists also like to drive along the Izu Peninsula, with its tiny fishing villages and bubbling hot springs, visit Hakone for the best view of snow-capped Fujiyama, and stop at Toba, near...
...part ownership in scores of companies. Japan now has seven such booming trusts, which charge only 2½% in commission, and pay 7% interest. So far, they have sold $70 million worth of securities to workers, housewives, farmers, even labor unionists. (One of the biggest trusts, operated by Nikko Securities Co., reports good sales among prostitutes, who have large savings after seven years of occupation...
...carried his luggage wrapped in a bandanna. When he arrived at the big resort of Nikko he went to a tailor shop, got his silk shirt and white trousers pressed for 20 sen (6?), searched until he found a hotel he liked. "My room and two meals each day in this, perhaps the very finest native inn in all Japan, was two yen fifty...
...Hock is a young businessman of Amsterdam. Mr. Hock went to the Yoshiwara. Izayoi happened to serve him. The next day he went to Nikko but he kept sighing...
James M. Eaton resigned as general manager of Pan American Airways, succeeded Nicholas ('"Nikko") Saltus Ludington as president of Ludington Airline, Inc, Ludington lines, flying an hourly service between New York, Philadelphia and Washington, recently had its first fatal accident after 13 months of operation (TIME...