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Last week Murata's long-awaited book on his philosophy finally came out, and though copies of it were snatched up, its author was no longer alone in the navel business. One of Japan's top beauticians, Mrs. Aiko Yamano, hit upon the idea of mixing a perfumed olive oil with a bit of lanolin and persuading women to pour a few drops into their navels before retiring. She called her oil "BB" for Brigitte Bardot. Girls in their 20s, she found, began sprouting pimples in spite of this treatment, but women over 30 developed clear, smooth skins...
...Friends Service Committee, could stop them. Said Quaker Seiju Hirakawa: "The present invasion of China by Japan is motivated by a militaristic clique which is trying to protect the Manchukuo experiment ... a colossal failure. Ninety per cent of Japan is against the present undeclared war. . . ." Said Ryumei Yamano: ''In Japan we have no freedom of speech...
...apprenticed to a house in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo, where the streets are well kept and the architecture more uniform than in most other quarters. When her year's apprenticeship is up and she is ready for work, a rich businessman named Yamano takes a liking to her, reserves her for himself. Naive, lonely, she is soon fond...
...Yamano has and deserves little affection in his own family. His son, Shigeo, is a university student, sensitive to the newest thinking of the West, out of sympathy with his father's commercialism, his reactionary social code. Some of Shigeo's friends are arrested on suspicion of Communism. Shigeo, fearing that he may be implicated with them, is reassured by his old friend Major Honjo, a kind-hearted Christian convert who carries on a one - man rescue mission among the Yoshiwara women. At one of Major Honjo's Sunday Bible readings Shigeo meets and falls in love...