Times-Square Samurai. Robert B. Johnson

      Printed in Japan

      WE DEDICATE this book to a tiger that was a Taylor but should a tailor have been, and to Tokyo traffic, which slowed us down long enough to conceive such an idea.

      Introduction

      IT IS entirely unacceptable to the American mind that the outcome of the war with the Japanese Empire could have ever ended differently.

      A nation, whose populace was brought up on Jack Armstrong, Hollywood, the heavyweight champion of boxing, and numerous other standards of invincibility, could never imagine itself coming out second best.

      The possibility of losing out in the war with Japan is stretching the collective American imagination too far.

      So much for the collective imagination.

      The individual imagination is something else, as this fantasy of cartoon situations will prove. Join the authors as they portray how it might have been if the Japanese Army had occupied New York City after winning the war in the Pacific.

      Twenty years have passed since the beginning of the occupation of Japan by United States armed forces and their civilian employees.

      All of the situations presented are based on real life. The only difference is the shoe, or in this case, the geta, is on the other foot.

      Although the authors have attempted to keep this book from being a real "in" type publication, a tour of duty in Japan will naturally lend a fuller understanding to this picture story.

      It is not satire for satire's sake, it is neither an indictment of the American occupation forces nor cruel ridicule of a conquered people.

      Laughs are the goal and both sides of the street share the spotlight.

      And so our troop ship moves into the harbor of America's largest city laden with the victors who will soon be gathering their memories of New York.