Word: yanagihashi
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...flower-viewing trips, or on walks. Actors were told to "exercise self-admonition in acting, refraining from expressions suggestive of loose ideas." Excursion traveling by boat or train was prohibited. Brothels' hours were limited to between 5 a.m. and midnight ; the prostitutes of Tokyo's red-lit Yanagihashi district voted to adopt uniforms like those worn by waitresses in keeping with the national restraint; parents were prevented by law from selling their daughters to houses of prostitution "unless they have a justifiable reason for doing so." Girl cyclists were directed to wear "peg-topped, coverall type of trousers...
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