Attempts are being made to ban ball-room dancing in Japan entirely, the alleged reasons being that it is "immoral" and that it is tending to corrupt the morals of the Japanese people!
group of members of House of Representatives a planning to introduce a resolution in the Diet demanding legislation whereby dancing will be put in the category of crimes! Yesterday group of Lower House members met fu the Tokyo Y.M.CA., and, affec a solemn conclave, adopted the following resolution:
"Te in generally resoga the present period fession in the thought world of Japan, what social-dancing has been' introduc: ced into Japan from abroad flinch to "deteriorate. the manners, morals and customs in Jo find ty slowly killing the family tem of the motion.
equally recognized that dancing as requires participants keep late hours, with singing and drinking, is leading to general resent evil in Japan's society, which feat tributed" to. 0 ing verne "of Western social dancing, we hereby cive that the Government feolation strictly controlling this Source of public evil"
There are cheap dance halls in Japan where the admission fee sometimes is as low as only ten sen, These re frequented by the dem: mondaines of the lower world and their partners: n the same sphere of life, It is extremely doubtful whether dancing ever tainted the morals of these innocents at hom? who certainly were not pure lilies before they went into the comparatively brightly-lit halls dedicated to Terpsichore by triose who like the Wilt and the lure of the light, fantastic toe.
In Osaka, the police have issued a set of new rules, among thes being the following: Dance halls dance halls and drinks must be se no jazz ur other boisterous music such as would annoy the neighbours; no dancing after ten o'clock at night; no minors, sti-dents or drunkards to be admitted.
Last week, principally in honour of the globe-girdling tourists we now have in our midst, the Imial Hotel gave a the dansant.
feral local people,—includir Japanese, attended. The police ai peared and took the names of all the Japanese men and women pr3- sent. It ix reported that these names will be added to the others already on the police black list!
Terrible Crime Passionel A terrible crime passiond took place in Gifu, near Kyoto, recently when a Buddhist priest slashed with a sword kis wife, his two children, The story is that the uncle.s alleged to have had improper relations with the priest's wife and the priest's sister. The immediate cause of the trouble was regarding the custody of the children. The priest, told his wife to get out of the house and never more darken his doors.. "You can go with my uncle," he said while taunting her. This last remark is the reason why the police think there had been illicit friendship between the priest's wife and his uncle.
The conversation then turned upon the custody of the children. "T shall keep them," the priest said. The uncle interposed and the grim tragedy was precipitated.
Before taking the robe, the priest now under arrest for murder, was a sergeant-major in the Army and was for several years physical inatruetor to the Nagoya police.
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