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THE JAPANESE love raw fish. Spear fish and sushi (fish and cooked rice) are unanimous favorites. Boiled octopus, baked eel, shrimp, and tuna also rate high. In Japan everybody eats the fish dishes and some of the Japanese, especially the country dwellers, virtually live on fish and rice.

Popcorn, peanuts, and crackerjack are sold to gathered Americans, but a small ready-packed fish dinner is the equivalent oriental offering. While riding the trains or attending games they buy the wooden-packaged meal. The small box, complete with chopsticks, is separated into two layers. On the bottom layer is rice. On top are fish and radishes and meat and pickles and cucumber. And there is a one-layer package done up in aluminum for laborers who carry their lunch to work.

With the vim and vigor that Americans eat sizzling steaks and Southern fried chicken, the Japanese eat their fish, cooked or raw. Most of the GIs are not attracted to raw fish, but some of them are, and when they get back home they may attempt to prove to the little woman that raw fish is a dish fit for kings.


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