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...Pachinko-byo is an ailment new to the annals of medicine and peculiar to Japan. Its symptoms: blistered fingers, a sprained thumb and eyeballs that jiggle in their sockets like popcorn kernels tossed on to a hot griddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurotic Explosion: The Yen Arcade | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...cause of pachinko-byo is pachinko, a sort of poor man's pinball game. It has swept Japan like a virus in the last three years and brought the neon pallor of the penny arcade to the land of the rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurotic Explosion: The Yen Arcade | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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