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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 6, 1964
Tokyo Papa Pays Plenty For Wedding
TOKYO —(UPI)— A foreigner who wanders into Tokyo's Meiji Memorial Hall any time during the next two months is apt to think he's blundered into a movie set or a madhouse.
Scurrying around the place will be young men in striped pants, old Japanese women in ceremonial black kimono, white-robed priests of Japan's Shinto religion, and a small army of waiters and major domos.
The puzzled Westerner also will see young Japanese women, many of them in white wedding formals that would easily pass muster in Paris or New York.
IT WILL DAWN on him that this is a place where people get married, but if he looks further, he will find that Japan's wedding catering houses tie the knot with an assembly line precision seldom seen in the West.
Japan is in the midst of a wedding boom. As in most places its papa who pays, and the Japanese father is paying like never before. Not since the palmy days before the depression and the Chinese War has Tokyo seen so many spectacular nuptial ceremonies.
Mostly they reflect Japan's growing prosperity in this year of the Tokyo Olympics.
There are more Japanese with money to spend these days than at any time since the 1920's and a lot of them are spending it on wedding ceremonies that cost around $1,500, in a country where the average monthly wage is still only about $120.
Meiji Memorial Hall, one of the most famous of the Tokyo wedding caterers, is booked solidly through November. You can't hire its services now, unless you're willing to settle for a ceremony early in the morning or around dusk.
THE ESTABLISHMENT marries between 35 and 40 couples a day. Almost 20 Shinto priests spend the day at the hall, rushing from ceremony to ceremony, and grumbling that they hardly get time for a decent lunch.
Meiji Hall's top-flight wedding, catered to 100 guests, runs as high as 400,000 yen (about $1,100). For this sum, the hall's staff sends out the invitations, throws a post-wedding banquet, and provides all the guests with traditional souvenir presents.
Commuter
CHICAGO—(UPI) Students of "commuter colleges" appear to have more and greater mental problems than students of other colleges, a psychiatrist said today.
Dr. John E. Kysar, psychiatric consultant at the Chicago undergraduate branch of the University of Illinois, reported on his findings in the archives of General Psychiatry, a publication of the American Medical Association.
Kysar said his five years' experience at the Chicago school suggested there is a "higher rate and more severe psychopathology in the student population of this commuter school as compared with most residential schools."
THE CHICAGO branch has 5,000 full-time students, 99 per cent of whom commute daily from home.
Kysar said students from low-income families, whom he said are more susceptible to mental problems, make up a large part of the commuter colleges' enrollment.
He said that there are many students who could afford to attend college away from home who by
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However, he said the prevalence of mental health problems among commuter students implies that the need for preventative health measures is greater in the commuter school than in the residential school.
Kysar said these students tend to feel inadequate, over-control their impulses, are isolated, indecisive, sexually maladjusted, dependent and conforming.
KYSAR CAUTIONED that his findings do not indicate that the entire student population of the Chicago school is made up of students with mental health problems.
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