1.   The next morning the otherwise obedient daughter boards a bus for another gleaming city, Osaka, where she talks her way into a job at a department store.

2.   Then came World War II and the military turned the gleaming city into a drab Navy base and built some houses on Yerba Buena.

3.   You ascend slowly, floating in a white tube-tram that rises beside a white wall, up toward a gleaming white city crowning a hill.

4.   The gleaming floating city is teeming with moneyed tourists out for fun and frolic.