Ashwani Gupta

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Several hundred GIs on that day quickly found their way to an R.A.A. facility in Tokyo’s ōmori district, where a small number of mostly inexperienced recruits had been gathered. Neither beds, futons, nor room partitions were yet available, and fornication took place without privacy everywhere, even in the corridors. Later Japanese accounts of the scene tend to be irate, speaking of shameless “animalistic intercourse” that showed the “true colors” of so-called American civilization. The local police chief is said to have wept.
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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