Aquila was a yearbook for Japanese American high school students interned in a camp during WWII. The University of California has scans of two editions.
Scan of WWII US internment camp for Japanese Americans (Via Homegrown Evolution about a magazine called the Plymouth Rock Monthly , which had a circulation of 40,000 in 1920. Maybe I should load it with sixties argot, since the Japanese enjoy riffing on obsolete American culture. I type, “Cosmic consciousness kick out the jams.” After disappearing into Japanese it re-emerges in English as “Space kick aware of the congestion.” Yes, that’s it, that’s it!
Akihabara also has its share of traditional-style porno stores. Kay guides us to one, and we walk upstairs past the usual racks of schoolgirl-humiliation comic books, alien-sex anime, and photographs of women with simulated semen all over their faces.
