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Chaplain Feeney: “It’s your duty as well as mine to prevent such a marriage.”
Joe Kelly: “G.I.’s married to Jap girls always look as if they knew a big, important secret.”
Mrs. Webster: “I don’t mean the Japanese are inferior, but I do mean we ought to remember who won the war.”
Eileen Webster: “I could never consent to live the barren life your mother did.”
The Big Girl: “It’s no fun to be a Stateside reject watching cute Japanese girls getting all the American men.”
Mike Bailey: “As a Marine I have certain theories which explain everything.”
Katsumi-san: “Japanese like gold teeth but I get white one for Joe.”
Fumiko-san: “When Japan know America win, my father kill himself—honorable—Japanese style.”
The Woodcarrier: “Japanese girls nice to kiss—yes?”
Old Farmer: “Each drop of fertilizer I place against the stalk of the plant by hand—not to waste any.”
Easy Lessons in English, 1879: “Ever your devoted and humble servant.”
First Officer’s Wife: “American men buying underwear for Jap girls always look so pathetic.”
Buddhist Monk, 1794: “This bell we received as a gift from the girls of Yoshiwara.”
Lt. Col. Calhoun Craford: “You goddamned nigger-lover.”
General Gruver: “Say, do you think the Japanese can be trusted after we go home?”
Watanabe-san: “You pull this lever and the steel ball shoots up there and falls back down.”
Consular Report: “Eskivan, Peter. Mother says, ‘No damned good.’ ”
The Curator: “It Is unlikely that even one foreigner in all our history has truly understood Japan.”
Teruko-san: “These wonderful little girls work desperately to learn the steps—the way Hana-ogi once did.”
Pharmacist’s Mate: “In Kobe there’s this guy who can straighten her eyes for eight bucks.”
Hana-ogi: “Not soap In tub, Rroyd-san. Outside soap, please.”
The Noodle Vendor: “Soba, soba, soba.”
Osaka Girl to Marine on Leave from Korea: For Japanese dancing Hana-ogi now ichi-ban.
Cpl. Sharkey: “You damned Buddha-heads, you gotta stand back from the door.”
General Webster: “Whatever makes you a better man makes you a better husband.”
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