I just happened to watch this film on my recent long international flight. UK prime minister and US President escaped from crashing Air Force One and made their way back to their duties.  A typical American hero story but filled with thrilling development and super actions. I could enjoy and kill my time on the long flight.  At the last part of the film, one character said "We give, they take" to express America's dissatisfaction with its allies reflecting the current status of America, which is no longer able to maintain the hegemonic power like in the cold war era but still...

The below is update version of the letter I wrote 2 years ago, adding latest information of the issue.   Dear Mr. US President Trump, Vice President Vance, Senators, Congressmembers, and other decision makers of USMC runway construction in Henoko, Nago city, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan  November 10, 2025   My name is MASAGATA, a Japanese man living in Tokyo. I used to...

This month Japan’s parliament elected a female prime minister first time in modern nation-state history. TAKAICHI Sanae, president of Japan’s ruling party LDP was elected as a prime minister of...

Here I post my letter to the young US Marine serviceman who destoryed the message banner at USMC Camp Schwab in Henoko, Nago city, Okinawa prefecture.  This is the message I and other activists...

A female CIA agent Evelyn Salt was suspected of being a double agent from Russia since a Russian deserter revealed but the revelation was a trap to destroy the US by the Russian intelligence. In...

Journalists traveling to Washington to conduct the interview with the Trump-like US President amid the civil war in the 21st century.  The film wasn't very impressive to me. I could clearly...

I happened to watch this film on Netflix channel at a hotel room while staying in Okinawa.  As a matter of fact, I was shocked and could understand why J.D. Vance made a very peculiar and...

I happen to watch this show while staying at a hotel in Okinawa. The hotel subscribed to Netflix so I could watch this American show on the hotel room TV. The TV show was remake of 1980’s popular...

To Admission Office and those responsible for the university’s alumni’s academic records,   السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ ‎  Assalamu Alaikum My name is MASAGATA, a Japanese man living in...

Update version of the letter below is posted on November 10, 2025. See this page .    Dear US President Biden, Congressmembers, Senators and other decision makers of the issue,  ...

I watched the film on my flight to Paris from Tokyo last week. The film helped me to kill time during the very long flight hours.  It was a biography of the king of rock, Elvis Presley. He was...

I just saw the film at a small theatre in Tokyo.  It was a biopic about the French politician who lived through holocaust and after the war became a lawyer and the minister of French...

US supreme court ruled the affirmative action which sets racial quota in college admission is unconstitutional.   I, myself think it is not a bad ruling.  When a college chooses who is...

Last Sunday I visited Atsugi Air Base in Kanagawa prefecture, an hour train ride from Tokyo. The place is jointly used by both US and Japanese forces. There was an event to exhibit the...

The movie described how the decision of murdering 6 million Jews in Europe was made in less than 2-hour conference at Wannsee in Germany 1942.  One of the participants was Eichmann, a Nazis...

Update version of the following letter is posted on June 11, 2024 adding latest information.  Please move to this letter instead of the below.    Dear US President Biden,...

In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the...

In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the...

In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the...

In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the...

In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the...

In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the...

Last month US Supreme Court made a historic decision, overturning Roe vs. Wade ruling 1973. The court's ruling leaves abortion rights to be determined at the state level. Several GOP-led states...

In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the...

The novel is based on this issue and my own experience.   In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer...

Update version of the following letter is posted on September 30, 2022 with latest information of this issue. Read this post .  Dear US President Biden, Congressmembers, Senators and...

Academy winning film (1986) directed by Oliver Stone.  A young American boy joined the military force combatting in South Vietnam, and witnessed the hell including division within the...

This "White" does not mean snow.  Christmas is in fact originated in the western civilisation as part of ritual of Christianity to commemorate its founder's birthday.  In Japan Christianity...

I recently fell in love with a French woman working at a food and sweet shop nearby.  She was very pretty not just appearance but mind of her.  How I found her mind was so beautiful was this...

This month marked 20th anniversary of the terror attack to the World Trade Center in New York.  20 years ago I watched a news program on TV. Then suddenly the scene of airplane crash into the...

The capital of Afghanistan, Kabul was suddenly occupied by Taliburn regime, managed by Islamic foundamentalists in the middle of August 2021 when the US forces were withdrawing from the country. ...

I recently come to think "Small is beautiful" meaning you do not have to seek bigger size. Why not just stay in a small scale, which may be more comfortable?  I live in Tokyo, where so many...

A famous classic musical film was remade using a protagonist with a Black skin. Traditionally the protagonist was played by a white girl.  Is this part of Hollywood's "Diversity Casting"...

Dear Olympic Organisers in the world, who prepare for postponed 2020 TOKYO Olympics,    I, as a Tokyo resident want to deliver the message or warning to you.  "Don't send your...

  Dear US President Biden, Congressmembers, Senators and other decision makers of the issue,     My name is MASAGATA, a Japanese man living in Tokyo. I used to study at San Francisco...

Last month, one of Japanese district courts, Sapporo District Court ruled that current Civil Law that does not recognise the same sex couple as legitimate married couple is unconstitutional. It...

It’s been thought women are not good at mathematics and not suitable for engineering jobs. But that kind of notions were proved to be nonsense a long time ago. The film “Hidden Figures” described...

President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris were sworn in.  That is a good news. No more Trump's stupid administration.  Biden decided that US return to Paris Accord and WHO. The...

I just happened to watch the old time TV show on internet.  The TV drama-series "Little House on the Prairie" was first aired in 1970's US and later dubbed version of it was aired in Japan as...

New vaccines were recently invented for the flu. I guess things might be going back to pre-COVID-19 period.  But there should be three major lifestyle and system changes, which may remain in...