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The Stainless Steel Kimono   Elliot Chaze
A collection of short stories set in occupied Japan shortly after the end of World War II. Chaze’s tone and descriptions capture the sordid, pathetic, and uncomfortable relationships between the U.S. soldiers themselves and with the Japanese civilians. Very well written in clear, straightforward, readable prose. Very good, too bad he is not well known.