This page from a pocket-sized Japanese-English phrasebook was designed to help American servicemen navigate everyday transactions - here, the art of bargaining for souvenirs such as Kamakura carvings - during the Allied occupation of Japan following WWII. Small practical guides like this one were carried by countless GIs and sailors as they encountered Japanese culture and commerce for the first time, and they survive today as intimate artifacts of the postwar American presence in Japan. This example is preserved among a collection of wartime letters and personal effects kept in a wood box. Project: 218347