[Eric in the Ozarks]

We lived in Yokohama in the 1950s-1961.
I remember the arrival of a stack of honey buckets overnight would signal a pumper campaign was about to start...

[chajin]

We lived in Yokohama in the 1950s-1961.

Went to high school there in the late 60s, but lived down the peninsula in Hayama.

I remember the arrival of a stack of honey buckets overnight would signal a pumper campaign was about to start...

There were many more rice paddies, and paddies that were turned into vegetable gardens, back then compared to today, and the nightsoil smell in the summer was sometimes oppressive.