[Albion Wilde]

After only a couple of days they couldn’t take it any longer and moved into a hotel for the rest of their visit.

Is that good or bad? What was it that they couldn't take in Japan?

[yarddog]

I got the information second hand but from a reliable source. He said the living was just too rough. They slept on mats, and just had a hole in the floor for a toilet.

They had become too Americanized to put up with it.