Word: ueno
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Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People and War is more subtle. It describes how the animals in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo were put to death by their keepers for fear that the bombing of Tokyo might set them free in the city. The Japanese protagonists, the zoo keepers, are portrayed most tenderly. There is not a hint, not a word about the motivation--let alone the humanity--of those manning the "enemy planes...
...UENO PARK, IN TOKYO, was ordained by the Meiji Emperor in the late 19th century as a public space in which Japanese could pay homage to ancient shrines and native traditions. Nowadays, it is a mess of illegal Iranian immigrants selling phony telephone cards and cocaine. The statue of Takamori Saigo, a Meiji-era samurai, is surrounded by junkies seeking out teriyaki (heroin) or shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine). Indeed, when Choco Bon- Bon, star of such Japanese porn classics as Tales of a Hard Banana, needs a fix, he goes shopping in Ueno and then goes home to the Hotel...