Bremerton (CA 130) - Naval Cruise Book

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Yokohama is an imporTanT indusTriaI ciTy, buT I suppose The biggesT aTTracTion Tor us has been The Yokohama PX. You can buy anyThing There, I imagine, buT a baTh-beTTer noT go inTo ThaTI X 4 'The place ThaT appealed mosT To us is probably Kamakura, a beach resorT Town, near Yokosuka. I-Iere we've Tound The picTuresgue beauTy oT Japan ThaT you read abouT and see on posT cards. I-Iere we've seen one oT The mosT Tamous shrines in The counTry, DaibuTsu, The giganTic bronze Buddha ThaT's over seven hundred years old. They were pIeasanT, Those hours in Kamakura, enioying The Tine beach, The Tood, guainT shops, and The beauTiTuI scenery-Japanese women are surprisingly beauTiTuI.. , I Yokosuka is like Sasebo, in ThaT iTs principal indusTry seems To be The U.S. Navy. I guess we Teel preTTy much aT home here now, as if we've visiTed every curio shop and have ,eaTen and drank Nippon beer in every ioinT in Town. We've Taken walks and rides Through The counTryside, seeing and smelling The Tarms ThaT The Japanese keep like we keep our TronT lawns back home. GeTTing back To The ship we exchange sTories abouT whaT we've seen and done. BuT you can'T believe Them alll A Tew guys have even said ThaT They climbed MounT Fuiiyama. IT really isn'T very Tar Trom here, however, and on a clear day you can see' iT Trom The ship. 'I-here's an old Japanese proverb ThaT I-Ie who Tails To climb Fuji in his IiTeTime is a Tool, he who climbs iT Twice is a bigger Tool. iWeII, we didn'T see anybody climb iT, buT--we do have an advenTurous crew on The Brem. Well, as already said: a Trip To WesTPac is a Trip To Korea, and ThaT's noT good. BuT when The war is over in Korea and we begin TorgeTTing abouT iT, as happens in all wars, we cerTainIy won'T TorgeT Japan. IT is ichi Ioan. I

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MAIN STREET TOKYO SIDE STREET YOKOSU KA PEEK-A-BOO HEADING FOR THE BAR---N? WHAT IS IT?