Word: yen
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...hobo full of heart and uncommon ingenuity. He wears a remarkable garment fitted out with pockets for everything: tools, utensils, pots, food packets, soy sauce and a jar of Ajinomoto brand monosodium glutamate. And taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen. Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although her scars...
...while loitering around a railroad station, he is adopted by two abandoned children. He snarls like a bee-stung samurai, he sulks like a spoiled geisha, but the kids tag along. And so Junpei has two kids, a sweetheart on the lam, and no yen except to do right by the youngsters and to get Komako (and his money) back...
...large birthday cake (with only one candle), Happy gave her husband a blue sailing shirt and two cashmere sweaters, and the kids gave their new stepfather birthday cards. Then for six days the New York Governor relaxed in the privacy of his vacation retreat and indulged an irresistible yen for Maine lobster-at almost every meal except breakfast...
...numbing: skyscraper temples to sinister gods, unseen choirs zum-zumming on the sound track, corps of nimble nautch dancers in every other reel. And when it comes to uplifting the masses or spreading the gospel, Buddha's producers are no more missionary than the others. They aim for yen...
Okumura's sales force of 2,850 men and women sells stocks from door to door like brushes, and the company has placed 1,100,000 "million-yen savings boxes" in Japanese homes, where Nomura representatives periodically call to collect the yen and credit them to stock purchases. The firm has built branch offices in such spots as department stores and railway stations, has set up numerous investment clubs and seminars. Right after the war, Okumura was reluctant to go after foreign investors, because he felt that the low prices of Japanese stocks constituted an injustice to the work...