[Eric in the Ozarks]

Once or twice a month, NHK would run an American or UK movie undubbed on a Sunday afternoon. Traffic at the PX complex was slashed by half...it was like a special holiday for us back in the 1950s.

[poconopundit]

Interesting. So you lost contact with American culture in those days. But my wife would tell me that famous show like Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie were standard fare — though in Japanese.