In Japan, their language is made up of kanji.  Kanji is made up of letters that look like symbols.  Sometimes kanji can be letters or syllables.  In orientation class, run by the base, they teach you that to find your way back to Yokosuka by remembering that the kanji  for Yokosuka sort of looks like "a fat man standing next to a skinny man watching tv with dinner on the stove".  It's a funny way of remembering your way home. 

The kids in school in Japan realize the kanji is actually of Chinese origin.  The kids go through extensive studies of their language.

 

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