Yokosuka Power Spot Number 3 --- The "EM Club"

Here is a stone marker, which commemorates the former existence of the "EM Club" --- Enlisted Men's Club:

This small monument is located at the corner of a large building, which houses the Yokosuka Arts Theater ( see here ) & the Mercure Hotel --- located across the street from the AEON Shoppers Plaza Mall.

The EM Club was a R&R (rest & relaxation) facility which served a similar function for the sailors of the Japanese Imperial Navy ---- and from 1945 through the early-1980s, the EM Club (also called Club Alliance) served as a unique place, located outside of the Navy Base, where Americans and Japanese came together.

      

The "forgotten story" about the EM Club is that, during the post-World War II years, a whole generation of now-famous Japanese musicians learned to play jazz music in the EM Club.  It was one of the few places where Japanese sax and trumpet players could let-loose, and watch their riffs make Americans dance on the tables.

I cannot do justice to this in one post, so more will follow in the future...