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Imperial Hotel Tokyo February 10th 1935

 

. IMPERIAL HOTEL Tokyo

Sunday .February 10, 1935

My Dearest All,

 

It was wonderful to have all the letters yesterday after such a long silence and it was good to get ashore after 3 weeks getting from San Francisco to Yokohama with of course, the 5 days break in Honolulu.

After such a voyage it is fine to be on land again, although I felt fit throughout.

I motored to the Consulate almost as soon as I arrived and was greeted by the Consul with the words "shwd yd chi heddw" .He was Mr W.J Davies of Carmarthen. I must reply to the letters again.

There seem to be millions of children here. They absolutely swarm and they look very picturesque in their coloured garments.

Thank you very much for the splendid notes on Japan. They are excellent and a great help. I think I shall stay here until the middle of April ie; until the visit of the Emperor of Manchukuo who will be here on April 6th for a week I believe. It will be fine to be in Japan about that time.

I went to the Foreign Office in the afternoon and was received by the Spokesman Mr Amau (Amô) to whom I had received a letter of introduction from the Japanese Ambassador in London.

In the evening Mr Cooper, a young man from the American Embassy took the young American students who were on the boat and staying at the Imperial out to a Japanese dinner where we were entertained by Geisha girls .We had to take our shoes off . We sat on the floor with crossed legs while the dinner was cooked on the table I found it most hard to get used too the chopsticks and was the clumsiest of all.

In the rest room a number of students were making merry. The gramophone played - of all times in a Japanese restaurant :

" When the sun shines bright on Charlie Chaplin     

His boots are cracking for want of blacking"

and I remembered singing it with you in a Pantomime in Cardiff in 1915 .I'll write more fully later.

Cariad Cynesaf .

Hefyd i  Ianto. Gareth.

 

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