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They sketch your portrait while you wait. This one was taken with a tele- photo lens. Looks almost like the other pictures, doesn't it? It was the fourth of July and the ship was high and dry -- we were just high.
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iii Japan is an overpopulated, under- nourished island nation that once chal- lenged the United States for control of the Pacific Ocean. The lives of its people have long been centered around the family group. Japanese institutions have emphasized this family unit and the glorification of the male as master. The sudden influx of American service- men in 1945 tended to upset the old mores. All phases of Japanese life, social, economic, as well as political, have felt the influence of the free spend- ing Americans QAmerican service men spend 51,000,000 a day in Japanl. to great pains to provide it -- atapl-ice Taxi dances thrive, street walkers and camp followers abound, Stateside music comes from every bar, on the street corners souvenir salesmen hawk their wares. We saw all this at the Casbah, the Cross Roads, Mike's Place, in the Sun Laundry and its fantail empire, in the thousand bum boats in every port in the strikers aboard ship. We of ,the Gatling were part of this peace time revolution. Glorification is now on the other foot-- r'-' 7 g H .. ,-, young girls have been attracted toward 9 ff T A A ' the sea ports and other military bases. t , L X ' In the cities, western dress has become . prevalent. Women are allowed to vote. p The Japanese are an ingenious ,-Mg people. They have learned what the A fi lonely Americans want and have gone M fx J I Af fri' --. were an - -r -. u i ,J e -R 1 The Ginza, center of Metropolitan Tokyo. Gil? 1 ' V l il!
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