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In 1972, when I was teaching "Constitutional Law," (that's English conversation for people who don't want to admit their English isn't perfect) at the Japanese Diet, the number of Yakuza in Japan increased from 13,537 to 13,945. or some such. How could the National Police Agency be so precise, I wondered. They phoned the gang secretary and asked.
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Of the 386 coin laundris I built in Japan between 1972 and 1984, two were in Yoshiwara. Wonderful people! One touching story: an old lady, an investor in one of the stores, had fond memories of seeing His Majesty the Emperor up close in 1945: He had inspected the damage himself on foot after the Shitamachi Raid of March 30-31, 1945, a bombing which had a death toll far far worse than the atom-bombings or even of Dresden or Hamburg. By some accounts he had apologised to the people for the harm the war had brought. Very shortly thereafter he was the peace faction, against his military, once Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave an ostensible reason for surrender.
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