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...reconverted from an army drill ground, and into 17 movie houses (four more than before pika-don). The current feature was one of Japan's first postwar movies called Blast of Love. And for the children, there was a new toy, The Peace Game, priced cheaply at seven yen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: This Was the Enemy | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...Times No. In Ohro, Japan, five thieves, offered 2,000 yen by Mrs. Ko Nagashima, snorted, "We couldn't take a paltry sum like that," made her go next door and borrow 10,000 more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...Chinese Governor Chen Yi found the raid-battered Formosans docile. He promptly put his nephew in charge of the Taiwan Co., which bought coal at 200 yen a ton and sold it at 4,000. Black-market gold sold at 300,000 Chinese dollars an ounce, against $180,000 in Shanghai. Even in fertile Formosa, mass starvation threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Is the Shame | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...villagers of Kawaidani needed a new primary school in 1926, but they hardly had a yen to their name. Somebody suggested that if they saved all the money they blew on sake they could have schools aplenty. Last week, after 20 years of self-imposed prohibition, 310 Kawaidani farmers counted up their savings. They had piled up 2½ million yen-enough to build several schools. Their duty done, a new school opened, the village's entire population leaped off the wagon together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thirst for Knowledge | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...would stand even had the Council suggestion been accepted, that nearly the entire social life of an undergraduate lies within the limits of his imagination and his bank account. A couple with a half-hour to kill must kill it either expensively or uncomfortably, while a student with a yen for dancing is confronted with inflationary Boston prices. Lack of University facilities for recreation can be completely written off only when and if a War Memorial Student Activities Center is built, complete with lounge and dancing space. But interim measures much more effective than the Council proposal can easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That Curfew Shall Not Ring | 5/28/1946 | See Source »

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