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THE SERVICEMEN in Japan have a word for it. They call it "Asiatic." It means that they've been in Nippon too long. It means that they'll never ever be the same. Their American customs have thrown in the social towel, and Japanese customs have been tagged the winner.

After a jaunt to Japan the GI speaks sayonara (so long, buster, this is it, the end of the road, goodbye) to the simple self that left the shores of America. He now walks and talks, dines and dresses, acts and lives like the Japanese. He has become definitely and deliriously Asiatic.

Outsiders tend to look upon Japan as a strange and unusual country, but the serviceman who has lived in and loved the life of Nippon doesn't see it that way at all. His viewpoint is native. He is magically impressed with the colorful, charming country, and when he gets back to the home he left in America it is apparent that the impression has been a very lasting one.

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