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Clear-Cut. In Tokyo, the Railway Board, fed up with impetuous passengers, announced that henceforth it will demand a 500-yen ($10) charge for entering a train through a glass window...
Today Author Read, like many of his more thoughtful contemporaries, is a strange but balanced composite-man-an admirer of both Chinese philosophy and surrealism, an atheist with a yen for mystical writing, an advanced thinker who sees his old-fashioned childhood as "an age of unearthly bliss," a romantic "anarchist" who insists that "we must not assume that art and machinery are mutually exclusive, but experiment until we discover a machine art." As art critic and esthetic philosopher, Read is erudite and discerning; as a writer, he is precise and dry, so that his prose shows at its best...
...dance productions, had rehearsed the cast for two months. The 49-man Tokyo Philharmonic had been drilled on the tricky rhythms of Sullivan's music. Kiyoshi Takagi, as Ko-Ko, had learned how to sing "teet wiro. teet wiro." The producers had gambled a whopping 1,800,000 yen ($36,000) on the production. Reserved seats went for 80 yen, the highest theater prices in Japanese history...
...accommodations, transportation, communications, etc. will be handled by the Japanese, though traders must pay for them. Businessmen will be able to travel freely, deal with any companies they please. But SCAP will continue a measure of control. At the beginning there will be no official exchange rate on the yen. A rate will be set by SCAP only when enough business has been transacted to make the rate realistic...
...shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing: 100 to 250 yen...