Shizuko Kasagi demonstrating on the Nichigeki stage the dance that goes with the 1947 song she made famous, "Tokyo Boogie Woogie." Kasagi embodies a new post-war spirit that arose in Japan and she became known as the Queen of Boogie."

From: Foreign Correspondents in Japan: Reporting a Half Century of Upheavals: From 1945 to the Present. Ed. Charles Pomeroy. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1998.