This is another unfinished picture thanks to Bryce 6's wonderful tendancy to destroy files when it is supposed to be saving them. Was going to add a C-130 flying in the sky, a bunch of forested hills in the far background, more reeds in the mid-ground, and the boy carrying the girl's shoes. Ah well! The picture is a composite of a lot of memories of my time in Southern Japan from 1958 to 1960. I saw a lot of Japan from trains and it was the major way I traveled around northeastern Kyushu. I was stationed at Ashiya AFB halfway between Fukuoka and Kitakyushu. The latter is really an amalgamation of five older cities, Moji, Kokura, Tobata, Yahata and Wakamatsu. It was to the Kokura area that I usually went. At the time it was a heavy industrial area and the center of Japan's steel manufacturing. At the time, in was also contained a lot of communist political activity and was a strongly anti-American area. Servicemen were warned to not go there alone or in uniform. Through efforts of some Japanese friends, I started teaching a practical English course to a bunch of junior high school boys. I always wore civilian clothing, but I did walk those streets many a night by myself. I suspect some sort of word went out that I was okay, for I was never bothered by anybody and only received many undeserved kindnesses and a great deal of consideration from the Japanes that I met. I've always wondered how those young men turned out. They would be in their early to mid-fifties now. Hard to believe. Jeremy Some buildings by Honey; as is the boat. School boy: Hiro3 realistic (DAZ); school uniform by penguin02 (poserclub). School girl: Eroko free figure; uniform by chriscox. Electric Train and railroad was a terrific freebie, but unfortunately, I've lost the info on who made it; people in it are lo-res figures by Ed Baumgarten, but textured by me. Castle: by chriscox (Renderosity). City Buildings: by gendragon (3d commune). Bamboo: Net freebie. Reeds and Grasses: Transpond (RDNA).