We had no TV in Japan in late 1950’s, just AFN radio. There was already Japanese TV but no set in our quarters. Two years with no idiot box, just books to read. Better in the long run.
“I remember in Japan watching some thing where it was a still picture and only the mouth moved, and it was in Japanese...”
Sounds like that el cheapo cartoon series “Clutch Cargo”. No animation; just a talking mouth.
LOL, I guess that may have been it. I remember seeing “Pulp Fiction” and there was a scene with a kid watching television, and I sat up and said to my wife “Hey...I saw that in Japanese when I was a kid”
At least I think that was it, it sure looked like it with the mouth moving! (I had never seen it since, and didn’t know that was what it was called!)