White Plains (AFS 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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'.' , ff, , . . . and the Peopl Vibrant, alive, friendly Look into the faces. That's where the character lies. Butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, barbers, kerosene delivery men, bar hostesses, garbagemen, businessmen, football players, men from the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, storeowners, painters, Yakitori sellers, waitresses, policemen, bus drivers, and train station car stuffers known as pushers are all part of the Yokosukafrllokyo scene. No two of these people have the same personality. The Marines who landed in Yokosuka after the cessation of hostilities came ashore ready for trouble from the native fanatics Instead, they found cooperation, beyond what they had any reasonable right to expect. Those who worked with the occupation came away with a new opinion of japan, as has every American who has served here since. Living in Yokosuka has taught the men of ll'HlTE PLAINS that Japanese, like their counterparts in America, are a people of a myriad of personalities. - 'fzfxk :WM ',?i4lk'HLr:2i'V -if Q Q1r5'ffi'fi 'Wi T :CE 'TT :Qs 'n..-,,4,. Hx 'fi 111

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The Town One of Tokyo's Bedroom Suburbs If Paris is the city of light, then Tokyo is the city of neon. From Shinjuku and the blaring discos sprinkled among the giant theater marquees, to the cozy atmosphere in the romantic bistros of Roppongi, and extending to the giant shopping arcade ofthe Ginza, the flashing, swirling, multihued illuminators of plastic, electricity and neon gas overwhelm all other competing influences. Forming the hub of Japan's transportation network, Tokyo Station boasts no fewer than 20 rail lines which spread out from its passenger terminal. Bullet Trains linking Tokyo with both northern and southern Japan at speed of over 100 m.p.h., leave the station at five minute intervals. Other lines serve the bedroom communities of Kawasaki, Yokohama, and Yokosuka. il P I . 'iff . . Ki xx.

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iz:-anna Ancient apitals and . . . K oto Three hundred miles south of Yolcosuka, the sharp, green, wooded hills of south-central Honshu, is the old lmperial japanese capi ly city, much more than Tokyo or any other city, contains the essence of the political, social, and esoteric structure of old japan. Because of the enormous amount of anthropological material to he found in the area, Kyoto abounds in museums - hoth large, nationally sponsored institutions, and small, privately owned huildings designed with the flair for the tal of lkyoto. This unusual. l' or elex en liutttlretl years, from the heggitining of the Pf'I'1otl in ,llll ,X.lJ. till the Xleiuii restoration in the l800lsClan u is tht hoint ot tht liintt o i hthe Shinto. I. l '31, 4. ' -.hhl. . ,Iss .'.-v...,A L ' 4.,'ut..v.w..:.-'.y3,,,,- in 1 , i-r r and his eourt.fllthou,C1 lfmperor had heeoiiie gilmost a figure head chief of grate un the oppressivelx itiilitziri role of tht- Slmtf',ms mmtar, several liuttdred years. his Suppose llltt ttois til lip tit tty descetitletiee from the Suit C intl gave him a position of oxerwltelmiiig iinportxiitee in the native lapanecg fgliyqion lFX'XfUNf'i1S The H'nIer ot llutltlltist and Shinto religious 3fllYllll'5 lor gl :ipan tor more than a millenigim. and rerriairisom ot p tr iinount itttportwitet- ttttlgtt. . 1 il Wen 5. 'f ' X