VOL. V, NO. 4
NOVEMBER 1, 1963
Dragon's Roar Writes Letter
Tokyo, Autumn, 1963 We are writing you from a thriving little town of over ten million and we're growing!
Tokyo is lively with exciting narrow old streets, odd sounds and a parade of smells, mostly of food cooking! And we have contrasts: walk along a shaded street and meet people in kimono; others wears western dress, hurrying about their business.
One eats charcoal‑broiled Kobe beef‑cows are anesthetised before butchering to preserve tenderness‑or halts in a shopping spred to eat o‑soba, a succulent noodle soup. One day there's a new American movie, the next, a local festival to film. Shop in a big "departo" or hunt for curios in a side street shop filled with antique ceramic wine bottles and carved wood bowls. On your pocket radio listen to Noh drama music three hundred years old‑or to the latest Stateside hit. Tokyo has something for everyone!
Tokyo is lively with exciting narrow old streets, odd sounds and a parade of smells, mostly of food cooking! And we have contrasts: walk along a shaded street and meet people in kimono; others wears western dress, hurrying about their business.
One eats charcoal‑broiled Kobe beef‑cows are anesthetised before butchering to preserve tenderness‑or halts in a shopping spred to eat o‑soba, a succulent noodle soup. One day there's a new American movie, the next, a local festival to film. Shop in a big "departo" or hunt for curios in a side street shop filled with antique ceramic wine bottles and carved wood bowls. On your pocket radio listen to Noh drama music three hundred years old‑or to the latest Stateside hit. Tokyo has something for everyone!
Describes Country
Don't think cities are all you see. Countrysides are green, beautiful, fun to explore . . . neatly‑cultivated rice paddies, terraced hillsides bearing rows of tea plants. . . no land is wasted.
When you travel you find Japanese students not much different from yourself. They want a good education, fun, world peace and to know their land and visitors better. We urgently need Americans to show interest in their government's ally in the Far East and can supply you with the names of young people.
Narimasu High has over 400 registered, in our northwest Tokyo dependent housing area for Air Force families. For the past two years we have been Far East Football Champions over neighboring schools, and we're just as proud of our academic record.
Sayonara!
Dragon's Roar Staff
(Ed's note: The Dragon's Roar is a newspaper published by an American Colony high school in Tokyo, Japan. The Westerner exchanges newspapers with this school.)
Don't think cities are all you see. Countrysides are green, beautiful, fun to explore . . . neatly‑cultivated rice paddies, terraced hillsides bearing rows of tea plants. . . no land is wasted.
When you travel you find Japanese students not much different from yourself. They want a good education, fun, world peace and to know their land and visitors better. We urgently need Americans to show interest in their government's ally in the Far East and can supply you with the names of young people.
Narimasu High has over 400 registered, in our northwest Tokyo dependent housing area for Air Force families. For the past two years we have been Far East Football Champions over neighboring schools, and we're just as proud of our academic record.
Sayonara!
Dragon's Roar Staff
(Ed's note: The Dragon's Roar is a newspaper published by an American Colony high school in Tokyo, Japan. The Westerner exchanges newspapers with this school.)