Navy Man's Pictures Of 1970's Japan

[Mulboyne]

Edgar J Law served with the Navy in the late sixties and seventies and has posted an online gallery of some of the pictures he took at the time. Alongside some tourist photos, he has some interesting shots of the bars near Yokosuka which catered to servicemen. He's also included images from one of the Nichigeki programs (a venue close to Greji's heart) as well as the Shochiku Kokusai Theatre.

[Taro Toporific]

Alongside some tourist photos, he has some interesting shots of the bars near Yokosuka which catered to servicemen. He's also included images from one of the Nichigeki programs (a venue close to gboothe's heart) as well as the Shochiku Kokusai Theatre.

Notice how Mr Law keeps insisting in all the photo captions that he, "never went into any of the hostess bars," and he, "only went to the Las Vegas style reviews not the strip shows," hee, hee.

[Charles]

[Mulboyne]

Notice how Mr Law keeps insisting in all the photo captions that he, "never went into any of the hostess bars," and he, "only went to the Las Vegas style reviews not the strip shows," hee, hee.

Perhaps Mr Law's interests don't lie that way. I came across the link to his gallery while trying to work out where Fox Bagels used to be sold in Tokyo (Taro - Lyle Fox was from Chicago) and it turns out Law mentioned them in a piece he wrote for the Japan Forum under the name "Anohito". It's a diary of a visit to Tokyo in the early eighties. There's a lot of detail about restaurants, galleries, concerts and shops, which, sadly, I find interesting, but no indication that he was out on the tiles or indeed interacted with anyone which makes him either slightly dull or very discrete.

[Taro Toporific]

,,I came across the link to his gallery while trying to work out where Fox Bagels used to be sold in Tokyo (Taro - Lyle Fox was from Chicago) and it turns out Law mentioned them in a piece he wrote for the Japan Forum....

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I met Lyle Fox several times in his early promotional days grimly flogging his bagels at Tokyo department stores (Bakers' hours + entrepreneur hours = He was never a happy camper.) I only visited the original store once, but I think Fox Bagels' building/location was located where the west side of Roppongi Hills complex now is.

Fox's bagels sold out before it was sold out. The final years that Fox owned the business, the bagels were Japanized as "soft bakeries as sweets*" with more sugar and less gluten to eliminate any texture and protein as well as much smaller diameters.

When Fox sold out to Myojo Foods Co., Ltd., the noodle makers, in the late 80s just before the Bubble popped, nobody noticed any changes since Fox's bagels had become so udon-like anyway. For a while, Fox's sellout was the shining poster child of a gaijin "success" for JETRO and MBA school case studies much to the dismay of the Bagel Gods.

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[Greji]

He's also included images from one of the Nichigeki programs (a venue close to gboothe's heart) as well as the Shochiku Kokusai Theatre.

I am not sure how Mulboyne could come up with such a wild assumption. The fact that I would know the least thing about the Nichigeki dancing teams is completely absurd! Why would I want to waste money to go to such a low rate place just to see Angela Asaka when she was dancing and singing lead and have a five year fling?

I don't even know where the Nichigeki Theater behind the old Asahi Shimbum Building and Beer Hall was located. Further, I could have no way of knowing that it was on the other end of the Ginza from the Shochiku Theater. Pure slander, kamo shiran....

[dimwit]

There is always something endearing about sleeze from a bygone era. Restaurants and shops fade and are forgetten, but sleeze endures.

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!