Word: shimbashi
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...DIED. KIHARU NAKAMURA, 90, English-speaking geisha from Tokyo's Shimbashi quarter, who entertained such visitors as Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Jean Cocteau; in New York City. Daughter of a doctor, Nakamura worked as a geisha for 27 years before emigrating to the U.S. in 1956 and later wrote a memoir that was translated into eight languages. In a 1989 interview with the Los Angeles Times, she lamented the loss of the geisha's art in her country. "Japan has become rich," she said. "But the people's minds are getting poorer...
...minimum, Tokyo boasts 30,000 establishments where a man or woman can have a drink. Prostitutes used to be everywhere, but a 1958 antiprostitution law scattered them to the winds, except for those who reappeared' as "bar hostesses." In the Ginza, Akasaka, Shimbashi, Shinjuku and Asakusa districts, such swank bars and nightclubs as Le Rat Mort offer unusual entertainment at prices that can be as exorbitant as anywhere in the world...
...loyal Americans; but why is he sorry about it? The major goal of our foreign policy should be strained the relations, with the Chinese Reds; the more strained the relations, the better the foreign policy; and anyone who is sorry about this is surely a traitor. From Here to Shimbashi is a dangerous book for the soft minds of our youth; let it be burnt. JOHN SACK...
Japan is desperately poor. Miles of gaping ruins still deface the land, though in the big cities jerry-built warrens of small houses and shops hide some of the scars of bomb destruction. The crowds that haggle over prices in Tokyo's Shimbashi market are only slightly better dressed than they were four years ago. High priced Tokyo shops sell "fancy silk ties, brocade purses and delicate chinaware, but few can afford them. The Ginza's humbler stalls have stacks of hardware and kitchen utensils, but still at soaring black-market prices. Chubby new autos (toyoda toyopetto...
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