Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1926 — Page 5

AUG. 20, 1926

SEEK TO ABOLISH FAMED JAPANESE UNDERWORLD CITY Will Prohibit Selling Girls Into Prostitution and Slavery. Times Bveclal _ TOKIO, Japan, Aug. 20.—The ▼elrd twang of the samisen, Japan's musical instrument, coming from behind thinly barred windows of the Toshiwara, “nightless city” of Tokio, may be heard no more by adventuresome youths of the capital if the present reform wave sweeping over the ministry of home affairs is successful. Gradual abolition of licensed prostitution has been approved as a policy by the ministry of home affairs, and while the home minister is said to feel that first steps toward reform should include the improve* ment of conditions in the houses, the ultimate object will be the abolition of the system which permits the selling of Japanese girls into slavery. Tokio, Kobe, Nagasaki—all of the

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leading cities of Japan have their Yoshiwaraß, where the young bloods of the town mingle with the older men and occasionally meeta venturesome foreigner bent on seeing the far-famed “nightless city." Imagine a whole section of the city, gay with lanterns, charming w’ith its balconies suggestive of Cairo, its modern buildings built to stand forever, and the entire section given over to houses of the underworld. “Cherry blossom time” in

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the main Toshiwara of Tokio, near the famous Asakusa Kwannon temple, was a gala season In the days of the old Toshiwara. Then the leading women of the nightless city held parades and were attended by their maids in waiting, young girls who had been sold into a life of slavery. And while the pink-toned blossoms sheltered them, these women postured and smiled, and wore their vari-colorbd kimonas in a manner charmjfig to the westerner who

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now and then was able to vlfew the procession. Women in Cages First, the placing of women In cages, that future patrons might view them, w T as barred by the Japanese law. Then the American missionaries and the western lnfluerice in Japan worked against legalized prostitution. It was whispered that some of the great fortunes of Japan had had their inception In these picturesque districts. Anyway, the

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hopes of the reformers met with opposition. N Now the home ministry and the press have taken up the battle to end Japan's nightless cities for -all time. .“The emancipation of prostitutes may sound rather extraordinary,” says an editorial in the newspaper Chugai Shogyo Shimpo of Tokio. "But T hls must be dur objective." A blind Englishman has .designed a typewriter to print In Chinese.

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LUMBER FIRED BY RAIN Water on Lime Starts Blaze on Auto Truck. Bu Drift ft Press FOLKESTONE, England. Aug. 20. —Rain set fire to a lumber yard here. A truck containing lime and lumber stood In the center of the yard. In the course of a heavy rain storm the rain beat its way through a tarpaulin covering with the lime generated heat which set * fire to the Umber on the truck. This in turn set part of the lumber yard 'on fire. The blaze waa~ extinguished, however, before much damage had been done. HONOR PAID WASHINGTON Bv Units 1 Press GOTHENBURG, Sweden. Aug. 20. —A bust of George Washington has been donated to the city of Gothenburg by the “Gustavus 111 Memorial Association,** made up of citizens of the two countries, in commemoration of the fact- that this Swedish king was the first European monarch to recognize the American Independence by concluding with it a tgeaty of trade and friendship. The

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