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From Osaka and 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...
Congratulations on your article on Japan [TIME, May 9]. It presents a vivid and wellbalanced picture of conditions as I observed them on a recent educational mission, which included Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Kobe and Yokohama. I heartily concur in the praise of General MacArthur's leadership...
...Formerly Kobe College compared in rank with American junior colleges, but during the war the senior college department was entirely dropped. Now, in accordance with the plans for a new educational system, Japanese institutions of higher learning for women will be raised to the full standards of American women's colleges. Kobe is one of the five women's schools in Japan eligible for such a charter...
Student activities at Kobe are based somewhat on the American system. There is a student government association, and various clubs including a drama group, photography, political economy, French, and German clubs, and a group for the study of the Tea Ceremony...
Social life for young women in Japan remains extremely limited. College girls would never be permitted to attend a dance. When a group of American G. I's from the occupation forces attempted to get the president of Kobe to hold a dance in the gymnasium last year, Miss Tambe related, the president put an unconditional "no" on the proposal. There's a limit to progress...