Strange but True Stories from Japan Book

	Introduction	xi
Chapter 1	Lionhearted Women	1
Chapter 2	Americans Serving Time in Japanese Prisons	11
Chapter 3	Phallic Follies	21
Chapter 4	The Mass Hara-kiri at Kamakura	31
Chapter 5	A Second Israel?	39
Chapter 6	An Unusual Character from the Past	51
Chapter 7	Three Extraordinary Geisha	59
Chapter 8	Children at War	73
Chapter 9	One or Two Dozen Tokyo Roses	83
Chapter 10	Xmas Paint Your Harts	99
Chapter 11	Manga: The Literature of the Nation?	109
Chapter 12	The Reincarnation of Jesus Christ in Japan?	117
Chapter 13	Night Crawling, Eel Traps, and Retreaded Hymens	129
Chapter 14	Gun Control, Japanese Style	137
Chapter 15	Alexander Romanov: Grand Duke or Great Comedian?	145
Chapter 16	Z - Z - Z - Z	153
Chapter 17	A Kitten Battles the Traffic at the Iigura-cho Intersection	161
Chapter 18	What Food These Morsels Be	169
Chapter 19	An American Apostate Humanizes the Emperor	193
Chapter 20	The Supreme Hero of Modern Japan	205
Chapter 21	The First American Teacher of English in Japan	215
Chapter 22	Deadly Metal into the Abdomen	223
Chapter 23	Japan Tests an Atom Bomb	233