Word: toyopetto
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...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, or "pet cars") chug along streets once monopolized by occupation vehicles-but most Japanese still wait in dreary queues for rickety buses...
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