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Lori-
I haven't visited this site in a while. I read your post, today. Wow, Jazzercise. I haven't done that in a loooong time. I remember those days vividly. They were good times. I am currently living in Florida, after my husband's retirement. He is still working with the military, as a contractor. If you went back to Japan in 85-86, I was still there. I stopped teaching at the gym, on base in Negishi because they wanted 50% of everything I made (by the time I paid my commission to Jazzercise, and all of my cost associated with the business, there would have been nothing left!). I taught exclusively at YC & AC. We went back to Japan in 1998 and lived in Yokosuka, off Halsey Blvd. until May of 2000, while Mike was with 7th Fleet aboard USS Blue Ridge. Off to Hawaii after that tour.
All the postings I'm reading are bringing back such fond memories. I went back to Japan in Nov. of 2006, for a month long visit. It was wonderful! I went to Sasebo (went to school there, too, so did my husband, but missed each other by about a month), Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka & Kamakura. I LOVE it there.
Peter and Wally-
I worked at the 106th Gen. Hosp. at Kishine Barracks, in the Registrar Office, during the summers of my junior and senior years at Yohi. In fact, Wally, your name sounds sooo familiar. I wonder if it is because I saw your name on paperwork that passed through the registrar's office? I worked there in 1968 and in 1969. Also, I was a Red Cross volunteer and once a week, we would visit the guys in the wards, to play cards, board games, pool, and with some to simply talk. Thinking about it, most of those guys were not that much older than I.
I've been to Dolphin Restaurant. It was made famous by a song sung by a Japanese celebrity.
When my husband and I moved to Japan, in 1980, we lived off-base for about a year, in Ninotani, just a block down from Sannotani. The house was around the corner from a small mom & pop fish store located off of "D" Avenue or more correctly known as Honmoku Dori, also known as Route 16. Afterwards, we moved to Negishi Heights. Our home was located at the back, between the two roads that met at the back of Negishi Hts., facing Cardiac Hill. #651.
During the years in Japan, my husband was aboard the USS Midway, worked for a time with the NIS office, then in Kamiseya at FOSIF...I think that is what it is called. He went back several times aboard various ships, including USS Enterprise, Coral Sea, Constellation and Independence, while I stayed in the States because both of my kids wanted to graduate from schools they were attending at the time (bummer for me, but I understood). It's been a while.
I plan to go back again, for a visit. I'm hoping to do so in the next year or two.
OMG! Zen! My friends and I used to go there all of the time. I recall there were two stages. One band would finish playing and another would start at the other stage. There were also go-go dancer cages and a car that was parked next to the dance floor. Also went to Mugen in Asakusa and Astro's in Motomachi!
Peter-
I took a tour of that Gold Meadow milk plant!
Kaoru-san,
My husband worked with the Japanese police many times, while working for NIS. Our friend Fujimoto-san is now retired. He went from being Lt. to Superintendent and Chief of Police for Yokosuka. Other Police friends are Mr. Abe and Mr. Seki.
I'm beginning to get hungry for Japanese food!
Aloha,
Kathe
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