July 2, 2006 at 12:00 am #41119
Frank
Participant
I spent 4 years in Japan during the 70’s and lived on base with my wife. I had a job during off-duty time teaching conversational English to young men and women. On several occasions we invited my students to our home to see how we lived and introduce them to our foods (this was WAY before they discovered American fast foods). The two things the women that visited us found the most interesting were our kitchen with all the ‘handy’ cooking utensils and our bathroom where my wife kept all her makeup and other items unique to the American woman. It was like exploring a new world for them. It wouldn’t surprise me if it were still the same. The cooking area and bathroom in Japan were quite simple compared to ours.