Destroyer skipper Tameichi Hara, whose ship and crew had returned in triumph from the Java Sea, recalled that no geishas were available to perform at his ship’s banquet, so several of the enlisted men performed their own drunken singing and dancing routines. “I don’t know how much sake I consumed in the process,” he wrote. “Nothing but my rugged physique pulled me through the chain drinking that lasted until the banquet ended around midnight.”
