Word: yen
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...Kobe to Tokyo, up & down the Ginza (Tokyo's Broadway) and through the Shinjuku (Tokyo's Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...
...underwrites orphan asylums, conducts a free tuberculosis clinic, distributes Christmas presents to the poor, supports the annual All-Japan Baseball Series, has sponsored concert tours by such foreign artists as Violinist Jascha Heifetz. In the 1923 earthquake that wrecked its own Tokyo plant, Asahi raised 2,000,000 yen ($970,000) for disaster relief...
...Canton since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials heard again his familiar "Hao, hao" (good, good). Chiang's bull-necked son, Chiang Ching-kuo, hustled his father into a waiting 1948 DeSoto, and the pair sped off to visit Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan. Li and Yen, who had not been informed in time that the Gimo was on his way, had rushed to the airport too late to greet...
...stop. By June 1944, a rounded mountain 450 feet high had risen quietly. Upbraided by Fukaba's villagers for his bad advice, the postmaster bought their ruined fields for 28,000 yen. "With the money I paid them, and their earthquake insurance and the extra jobs made by the disturbance," he says, they are ' funka narikin" (volcanic new-rich...
...knew that President Li had been unable to get another candidate for the post, so Yen was confirmed. The Yuan members were more interested in a counter on one side of the meeting room above which was a sign: "Legislators planning to leave for Formosa must register here...