[Mase]

You were there for the rebuild. What an interesting time that must have been. When I got there the first time, one block of downtown Tokyo was worth more than most American cities, and they were eating shaved gold on their sushi.

The culture is fascinating and I really enjoyed my time there. The willful disregard for history, though, is mind-boggling.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There were still city blocks of smashed concrete in Yokohama and Sagamihara where we lived. Two houses north of our Yokohama house was a lot filled with broken stone, re-rod and broken glass. Our maid, Masako-san, said it had been a pharmaceutical manufacturer in war time. There were hundreds of tiny glass vials of liquid scattered about. We returned stateside when I was 13 years old.