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Humanitarian is not the word that leaps to mind at the sight of slick, pomaded Ujitoshi Konomi. One of the sharpest characters in Tokyo's gaudy Ginza district, Konomi has been in his time a gangster and political terrorist in Shanghai, a smuggler, black-marketeer and saloonkeeper in Japan. Konomi is also a man with important political connections. To forestall trouble, he is constantly accompanied by a bodyguard, a onetime lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Army. Still and all, it was as a humanitarian that Konomi filed a request with the Welfare Ministry back in 1949 to build...
...citizens of Tokyo. Far away from the mountains and the "open sea, they are unblessed by fresh breezes and deprived of the benefits of green leaves. They drag their lives from day to day through the dust and dirt of the city. The Tokyo Hot Springs," said Ujitoshi Konomi, putting a name to his project, "will change all this...
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