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Foreign News
September 15, 1920
The Lamar Register
Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado
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Japan is rapidly adopting Western customs, manners, and architecture, leading travelers to seek authentic Japanese culture outside cities. In Tokyo's Ginza, diverse fashions mix Western and native styles among men, while women preserve traditional dress.
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Old Japan Disappearing.
Japan is so fast adapting and adopting not only western customs and manners, but western architecture, as well, but the traveler who wishes to see anything Japanese must get out of the cities and off the beaten track. Standing on the Ginza, Tokyo's main thoroughfare the stranger will be amazed at the variety of fashions that will pass along before him. A gentleman in evening dress is followed by another who wears a frock coat and bowler hat, and by still another robed in native haori and hakama, canopied by a top hat and sporting an expensive cane or umbrella. Behind these strolls along a man in overalls, followed by one in a yet more mongrel costume—a suit of white cotton underwear, over which is a cotton kimono and no shirt. All this is immensely comical, but the Japanese take it as a matter of course. The Japanese women, however, are free from these Eurasian indiscretions in dress and habit, preserving as yet their graceful native costumes.
Japan is so fast adapting and adopting not only western customs and manners, but western architecture, as well, but the traveler who wishes to see anything Japanese must get out of the cities and off the beaten track. Standing on the Ginza, Tokyo's main thoroughfare the stranger will be amazed at the variety of fashions that will pass along before him. A gentleman in evening dress is followed by another who wears a frock coat and bowler hat, and by still another robed in native haori and hakama, canopied by a top hat and sporting an expensive cane or umbrella. Behind these strolls along a man in overalls, followed by one in a yet more mongrel costume—a suit of white cotton underwear, over which is a cotton kimono and no shirt. All this is immensely comical, but the Japanese take it as a matter of course. The Japanese women, however, are free from these Eurasian indiscretions in dress and habit, preserving as yet their graceful native costumes.
What sub-type of article is it?
Cultural Adaptation
Social Modernization
What keywords are associated?
Japan Westernization
Tokyo Ginza
Mixed Fashions
Native Costumes
Cultural Change
Where did it happen?
Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo, Japan
Event Details
Japan is rapidly adopting Western customs, manners, and architecture, requiring travelers to venture outside cities for authentic experiences. On Tokyo's Ginza, men display eclectic mixes of Western and native attire, viewed comically by outsiders but normally by locals, while women maintain traditional costumes.