European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tokyo hoi ill share of porn Gyrli and Many of them Ore in Lovish Itoga Ihori. Night club often include traditional dance interpret Laloni in their j by Earnest Hoberecht up staff writer or Tokyo in Hie biggest City in lie Al world it is the noisiest. It Muy Bethe ugliest. With a population of almost 11  is borne to More people than in habit the subcontinent of Australia. So chaotic is its traffic that at som major intersections big yellow flags Are stacked in boxes for pedestrians. The make their Way across the streets with banners held High in sign of surrender to taxi Drivers most of whom Are reputed to be old Kamikaze pilots. Tokyo is not Only a City or a Way flite. It is a game. Few streets have names. House numbers Are of Little Hel because they signify the order in which they were built not their position. No. 1may be followed by no. 1 which is next Tokyo has Bullet trains that travel100 Miles an hour. It is a City of driving businessmen with Branch offices in every principal City of the world. Right now it is preparing for the olympic games and a Pace which might ordinarily be called frantic has escalated to hysteric. Had you seen Tokyo with your own eyes As i did in August of ims you would not have believed the City could Rise again. I had talked o Navy Pilot into flying me ashore from an american aircraft Carrier and landed in Japan two Days ahead of the late Gen Douglas Mac Tokyo was City of ashes. It had been70 per cent destroyed by fire bombs. Three million of the City s then s Mil lion residents had lost their Homes 770,000 Bouses in a. More than 100,000wen dead. Survivors a Vang in bomb shelters listened Dazely to broadcast announcing the defeat of Imperial Japan. They crawled out to see the enormity Fuk damage to their City. And therein lies the answer to Why Tokyo is one of the great cities of the world. It lies in the resiliency of the unfortunately reconstruction was no properly supervised. While there were Many wonderful plans for the new Tokyo most of the rebuilding was done right on the old foundations. Hundreds of winding tiny lanes survived. Modern office buildings Are nestled against 300-Ycnr-old structures. A 1100,000 Home of a corporation pres ident May be next door to a fish Market. It has one of the lowest per capita in comes of any major City in the world yet it has More department stores an Swank shops than any other Metropolis. Its great problem is growth. The popu lotion increases an average of 30.000 every month. A government commis Sion has estimated that the population of Tokyo find its suburbs will to Lii 28 Mil lion by 1175. Some cull it a mysterious Oriental City. Some Cal it a modern Western Metropolis. Some suy it is u political commercial and sinful City which Hus re placed Shanghai As the wickedest Capi Tal of Asia. It is a drub City full of Dull Wood an not much pall. But it is a City of noun and at night when the advertising signs come to life it takes on a Guy appear Ance. Even Loyal Toky oites admit their town looks u lot belter at night when you can t Sec it quite so  As a City is Only about 500 years old a youngster by japanese  curl la was built on the present site of Tokyo in 1497 when the Imperial Capi Tal was located at Kyoto about 300 Miles to the , the City of Edo As it was known until about 100 years ago became the Metropolis of Japan while the Cul Tural Center of the Netlon remained wit the Imperial court to Kyoto. Japan ended its closed door policy 100years ago and began to Welcome ideas from the Western world. The name of the City was changed to Tokyo East Ern capital and the City became the official  Kyo expanded rapidly until sept. 1, 1823, when the great Kunlo Earth quake struck. It would Hove been bad enough but it came at noon when housewives were lighting fires in their Little stoves to Cook lunch. The fires in the paper and Wood houses swept the City. The death toll then As it was to be in the world War u fire bomb rules was More than 100,000. Pessimists say Tokyo May go up i smoke and flames again. They Point out that the City is sinking to an alarming degree an average of nine inches per year. The sinking is uneven and in someplace Gas Mains have cracked permit Ting seepage of explosive  Case of another major earthquake it is feared every main would be broken and the City still a mishmash of paper thin wooden houses would go into flames once More. The Pace is terrific but japanese businessmen know How to relax. They Are energetic and highly , yet these same men come to work late leave Early and think the Day wasted that docs not include 18 holes of Golf. In the evening the modern businessman slips out of his Western Cut suit into his Kimono for Evenin Comfort. Tokyo is a spurts town. There arc four major league baseball teams each drawing crowds of 50,000 to 75.000 Fansto a game. Boxing and bicycle and horse racing Are  girls of Tokyo Are famous far their Petite Beauty and  Gay District of Yoshiwara is no More. The postwar anti prostitution Law lid it in. But the turkish Bath is thriving. The Geisha still survives hut she snot the status Symbol of the old Days. Japanese men with expense account soften prefer h round of Golf to in rec. Nung of drinking and relaxing with thesul cled teahouse girls. The la Rel class Geisha never a prostitute but often a Lover has to compete these Days with loss expensive forms of recreation. A cover the olympic Torch bearer Heads Lor Tokyo where Neon is kill of the night. Down on the floor gracefully and eve greater difficulty getting up. Even worse is having to sit Willii your legs folded under you for u couple of hours the time it takes to cat a formal japanese meal. Two food consists mainly of soups and seafood. Much of the fish 1s raw and " this includes squid and octopus. You must Well you should eat with chop Sticks. Foreigners usually find it hard to pick up food with the two wooden stick the first time they use them. However it does t take Long to get the Knack. What then is the great attraction of Tokyo what Mokes Tokyo a great Ottja it certainly is not Beautiful. It is . There Are too Many people too Many cars too much of  complains about Tokyo even those who were born Here and hive lived Here All their lives. What is it Why it is the people of Tokyo. The late Ruth Benedict an american anthropologist perhaps has Given the Best description of the japanese As seen through Western eyes in her Book the chrysanthemum and the  describe the japanese says Mia Benedict requires the most fantastic series of but Fulsos Ever used for mar nationality. They Are unpriced cantly polite but Al so insolent and overbearing they Ore incomparably rigid in is Havior but they adapt themselves to. Extreme innovations submissive but not easily amenable to control from above Loyal and generous but Treacher Ous and spiteful. They Are genuinely Brave but Muld. Devoted Wilh passion to Western learn ing but Contr alive. Delicate in it and culture but devoted to the cult of she Warrior. Her Book was  in 10. But the paradoxes of the japanese people a Vasli it Cal Loda r Tny worst  in the great capital City of Tokyo they Are displayed to their Best but Al so worst advantage. The stars and stripes