Life in Occupied Japan A True Story Joyce was 23, pregnant, had a toddler, and infant when she arrived in Tokyo in June of 1950. The following day her husband left to fight in the Korean conflict. He left her with no money and life's hardships began. Her toddler son got lost and getting help and assistance would be hard in her own country, let alone in a defeated island nation. Right decisions and luck allowed her to find a job, The military assigned her a live-in Japanese maid. She also was able to hire other live in help to take care of the kids. Then it happened. A knock on the door. A handsome military man reported her husband's war injury and one thing led to another. Romance and another pregnancy began a tangled weave of deceit. Jealousy engaged belligerency at a holiday military ball as events and a story of twists and turns soon meets with a closing chapter.