The Archive · 1941

Tokyo's Night Clubs Fast Disappearing

Tokyo, Apr, 36, Closed last year as being contrary to the spirit of the times hundreds of one-time gay dance halls in Tokyo have been converted into prosaic business ofoes.

One famous night club is now housing a cement company, and another a spa prospecting firm, 'The most spectacular transform tion, however, is the conversion of the well-known Kokka Dance" Hall into an economics research' Inbora= tory, with a lite kitchen doing service on the former jazz band stage—Reuter,

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