The western restaurant in Cranbrook where Nakagawa was working was temporarily managed by Kagawa, who had a relationship with Oshichi. But there is another western restaurant in the city. In 1908, there was a waiter called Taguchi in this restaurant. As a straight person he was diligent back then just like the early Nakagawa, but he was tremendously sloppy and finally entered into a devil relationship with a woman called Otome in Macleod, Alberta. Otome became a prostitute under Mona—she goes by her English name but she is actually Japanese—in Macleod, but she moved to Edmonton after she got involved with Taguchi and worked at Makihara’s cave. When the cave was closed down, she became a waitress of a western restaurant run by Benkichi Ashida. A “western restaurant” sounds good, but any Japanese-owned “western restaurants” in Edmonton can in fact be suspected as “fuzzy” businesses. Their number is not just one or two but we will expose this in a separate issue. Anyway, Taguchi and Otome now run a western restaurant in a small city, four or five miles away from Macleod, but actually rely on Otome’s prostitution as their main business.
Edmonton, at Last
Calgary and Edmonton in Alberta are showing great development lately. You may feel that it is not logical to comment on such a matter, but we still cannot ignore the fact that Japanese devils got together vigorously in Edmonton as the city developed. The caves here differ from those in other places, as they appear as western restaurants while inside they do fuzzy business. They are a different kind. Cave businesses started taking the form of the western restaurant, and it is a new phenomenon. Toraji Asami was the pioneer, who did an old prostitute cave in earlier days in Edmonton, but at that time there was a designated redlight district two miles away from town. Asami moved to the town four years ago and opened the Mikado* Restaurant on the First Street near the Grand Trunk Railway station. Their ignorance and perversion is extreme; the naming of the restaurant is beyond the limit and gives me cold sweats. The “fuzzy” women working there include Omiki and Osono.