Serving in the American occupation of Japan at the end of the war, author Robert G. Mason witnessed a host of incredible and sometimes entertaining experiences. 

Mason reminisces about the complex experiences that made up his war experience, from a vindictive Army nurse who learns the hard way to care about the wounded, cigarettes and Japanese money, to how a Japanese general, convicted of wartime atrocities helps him cope with medical trauma.  A vivid memoir and coming of age story.

Robert G. Mason is a professor emeritus at Oregon State university.