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The LONGER he stays in Japan, the more alien become the ways of America. Japan and the ways of the Japanese are fascinating and the fascination flowers long after the serviceman leaves the Far Eastern shore.

When he returns Stateside and once more settles in Albuquerque or Schenectady or Columbia or Punxsutawney, the Japanese customs he has cultivated buck the customs of America.  Pandemonium reigns in the GI's social realm.  The results are wonderfully weird, entertainingly exciting, and daffily disastrous.

He gets back home and it strikes him as strange that people in America should sit on chairs rather than on the floor, that they should actually wear shoes inside the house, and that they should say okay instead of dai-jobu.