Government regulations have brought many violations, and illegal methods of circumventing them have developed as they did in the United States during its prohibition era. A rich income from tourists to Japan has been reduced to a thin trickle.
Some Japanese fear that experiences of the war will cut into Japan's traditional family system and harm or destroy it. The young people are insisting on more freedom than in the past.
Because of the necessity on the part of many to reduce their cost of living there has been a tendency away from Occidental customs which have been adopted by Japanese since the empire was opened to Western influences nearly a century ago. Japanese clothing and Japanese style of living are found more suitable to periods of retrenchment and some government leaders are urging "a return to the way of our fathers" as a patriotic movement—United Press.
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