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A JAPANESE SISTER

This is a little true life story about one of our Japanese sisters whom Virginia mentioned in TVia No. 64 (page 89 for those who have the book).

Before talking about her, I would first like to try and explain why I know about her and a little about the Japanese moral structure.

I have recently been discharged from the Navy with which I did a two year tour of duty in Yokohama, Japan. I learned some Japanese and had a girl friend who would translate what I couldn't understand. I might add that my GG understood my TV tendencies and was what I would consider, from reading Susan's classification of wives, a B plus GG.

The Japanese outlook on life is a very difficult one to explain to a per- son who has not spent some time there. This is a subject which one could take up most of a book trying to explain. I will try to give you an idea.

I think the main reason for the great difference between these two countries, Japan and the U.S., is the fact that the U.S. is basically Christian while Japan is, or was, basically Buddhist. To the Japanese it is socially acceptable for a man and woman to live together out of wedlock. Nobody will criticize or condemn this. The Japanese people feel that if a person wants to wear the clothing of the opposite sex or even wants to make love to members of their own sex, it is their own business. The people will respect others feelings as long as the other people will respect theirs. In the U.S. it seems that if you are not like the other guy then you are and outcast or oddball and not an individual.

The famous "sister boys," from the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, who make very good looking girls, happen to be homosexuals. However, the only way to tell them from the GG's (other than stripping them) is their voice. To my knowledge I only met two of the Sister boys once while on a

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