Pachinko is Life

The Pachinko Royale transpacific cruise liner departed San Francisco for Tokyo late in the season. In the second month of the charter a raging tempest blotted out all light except that of the lightening. The crew begged everyone to evacuate, but the guests chose to go down with their favorite pachinko machine. James, Hawaiian shirt over Steeler's jersey clad America; Kenjii, a geriatric Japanese …