Word: kinbasha
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...switch day, swarms of almond-eyed hostesses at Tokyo's splashy Kinbasha nightclub were offering their hard-earned MPCs for 10? on the dollar. One geisha house announced bitterly that henceforth it would do business "for the Japanese yen or the green American dollar only." An Army captain who had been trying for two months to sell his second-hand car for $2,100 was besieged by frantic Japanese car dealers offering him up to $5,000 in MPCs. In Korea the black-market price for $10 MPC dropped from 3,500 to 100 hwan by nightfall. Koreans pursued...