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...never believe it but I looked up your doll Akiko-man is she terrific. She finally admitted (next morning, haha) that she hasn't got another boyfriend. Those wild letters are turned out by a fantastic guy named Tokuji Sugaya in a love-letter shop in swinging old Shibuya who lets these gorgeous chicks talk for a while and then he sits down and writes notes to about ten or 20 G.I.s a day. He charges 300 yen a letter, and the clients are just the best I've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Love-Letter Shop | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

Dagger. Naval officers nodded approvingly when the deathless spirit of Japanese fanaticism was shown again last week by one Tokuji Miyata, 26, bespectacled student of political science. With a dagger in his sleeve Student Miyata banged on the door of Admiral Takeshi Takarabe whom most other Japanese Navy officers consider a traitor because he was a negotiator of the London Naval Treaty with its 5-5-3 ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: All Honorable Men | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Miss Nancy Ann Miller mated with an Indian potentate (TIME, March 12), were not a little stirred last week when she gave birth to a girl-child of swarthy skin, jet black hair and beady brown eyes. Since the event was somewhat premature, the babe's father, Sir Tokuji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, was suddenly obliged to break off playing baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera, whence he rushed to his wife's bedside at St. Germain, near Paris, arriving just in time. Though naturally disappointed that the offspring was not male, Sir Tokuji at once ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Maharani v. 13 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Tokuji Hayakawa, onetime railway conductor, now builder-operator of the newly opened Tokyo subway (TIME, Jan. 9), contrasted, last week, his construction methods with those used in Manhattan. Since a great part of Tokyo is not, like Manhattan founded upon a rock, no drilling whatever was necessary and the Tokyo tube was simply buried in trenches cut with ease in the soft soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Empire Notes | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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