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Show Auto Is Taking Place of Jinrikisha in Japan The recent opening ot the Tokyo-Yokohama Tokyo-Yokohama highway for through automobile auto-mobile traffic marks the decline of the jinrikisha the little two-wheeled coolie-drawn cart so characteristic of Japan and the Far East. Occidental travelers do not feel that they have done justice to Japan without with-out having a jaunt in the jinrikisha. While the vehicle does not meet with the western conception of comfort. It nevertheless gives a thrill to the stranger when he rides hehind a coolie for the first time. But now the automobile auto-mobile is growing in favor in Japan, nnd with the decline of the old method of travel, many narrow streets and alleys, which were endurable with rhe jinrikisha. art apparently doomed. Not a few Japanese cities are undertaking under-taking a program of street widening and street improvement to accommodate accommo-date the motor car. |