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...

Last September I visited Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plants being in the process of abandonment. 9 and half years ago, diesel generator for emergency that had run 4 of 6 plants were destroyed...

What I am writing might include inappropriate things.  Recently, the world is in turmoil. High temperature caused big forest fires in Brazil, California, Australia and other parts of the...

A real story about women who worked in America's conservative mainstream news media network, FOX during 2016 US presidential election.  A popular anchorwoman, Gretchen was demoted and finally...

While I locked down myself to prevent novel corona virus spread at home. I just happened to rent DVD drama programs "Ossan's Love" which was aired in 2018 on one of Japan's mainstream TV network...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics is on the verge of cancellation due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus. The main stadium in Tokyo. It seems, this disease keeps spreading for months worldwide...

Rep. Don Bacon, Rep. Ruben Gallego, Rep. Seth Moulton, Rep. Jack Bergman, Rep. Steve Womack, and Senator Marsha Blackburn, who met Mr. Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan and...

A story of a Mexican American woman who worked in Japanese cuisine restaurant for the purpose of getting a stable job and later came to want to be a sushi chef. The story took place in California....

I just found a TV drama series “Deutchland 1983” on internet. That was a story in the Cold War Era in Germany, when the nation was divided into two separate states, East Germany, called DDR and...

I bought a DVD of it last year. But I had seen the film many times before I bought that.  The story of an Austrian woman who became a governess for seven children in von-Trappe family and was...

Japanese pacifists sing praises for Costa Rica’s disarmament.  According to the documentary “A Bold Peace,” the nation abolished national army in 1948, the same period Japan announced current...

I sent a letter to US Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Bill Hagerty today. It should be handed to him next Monday hopelly. The below is what I wrote to him.   Dear Mr. Ambassador Hagerty,...

Have you heard of the term "Dark Tourism"?  This is the tour to spots in which historically or even recently terrible incidents happened. It is not a travel to have fun. Rather it is for...

The world is shocked by white supremacists' march and subsequent terror attack to its counterprotestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, and President Trump's response to the incident. To me, it...

Recently I have come to believe life means killing time until death. Cultivating such thinking is particularly liberating when you are in grips of depression, with seemingly never ending...

The film "Race" features life of Jessie Owens, an Afro-American truck and field athlete who won 4 gold medals in 1936 Berlin Olympic game. It was a time that segregation was legal in US and Nazis...

The German title means "He is back again." In Japan it was titled "Hitler Returns." The story is based on a novel of the same title. Adolf Hitler time slipped to 21st century Berlin and became...

1st time I watch this film was more than 20 years ago. When I was attending US university. I took a course titled "History of Japanese and Chinese women." During the 4 month-long semester, the...

An osprey (helo-plane type flying vehicle) crashed on the coast of Nago city, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Dec 13. A major accident finally occurred 4 years after deployment in Okinawa. That was in...

Not totally bad news for all of us in the world. For Americans it is a great chance to liberate from establishment politics and two lookalike-party system. For Japan, liberate from...

  I stayed in Takae district, Higashi village in Okinawa Prefecture last week. I have been there more than 10 times in last 7 years. Okinawa is southernmost prefecture, 3 hour flight from...

It is happening in Takae district, Higashi Village, Okinawa Island Prefecture, southernmost tropical region in JAPAN. The population of the prefecture is about 1.4 million. 3 hour flight from...

Last month, US president Obama paid visit to Hiroshima and hugged survivor of the atomic bomb which the U.S. force dropped onto the city. For most Japanese he was very much welcomed because he...

The story of the film reminds me of American transwoman, Caitlyn Jenner, who was a Olympic gold medalist named Bruce Jenner. He turned himself to be a woman at the age of 65 but her sexual...

March and April were the big months for anti-nuclear movement of this year. 5th anniversary of Fukushima Daichi nuke plant's accident and 30th anniversary of Chernobyl nuke accident. Since 5...

The story is about debate between a dedicated Christian college student and an atheist college professor. The professor demanded all the students in his course to write "God is dead" following...

The film's portrayal of the 19th century South was unrealistic. Although the story took place after the Civil War, portrayal of Blacks was not bad. Until civil rights era, the old South was...

From last December to beginning of this month, I was in Okinawa to join protest activities of locals who are opposed to construction of new military base runways in US Marine Camp Schwab in Nago...

Last month during what is called "Silver week" holidays (September 19 to 23), I visited a feudal period castle, Himeji Castle. It is located in Himeji city, 3 hours and half by Bullet Train from...

I bought a DVD of it. It was released in Germany and China, 2009. Until now it was never released in Japanese theatres. Only shown at one-time meeting by peace activist meeting or symposium. DVD...

Firework, I saw at a military base in Tachikawa. Dancing on the street, in kimono. Kagurazaka Floating lanterns on Sumida River, Asakusa. Each lantern represents...

More than a year ago, I switched from the small mobile phone I had been using for more than five years to a cutting-edge smartphone. Almost everyone I knew had already made this change. Among...

I just happened to know this film while participating in Tokyo Pride Parade event. It was British movie. The Japanese title was "Parade e Yokoso (Welcome to the Parade)" The story is...

I went to the exhibition of John Fitzgerald Kennedy at National Archives of Japan located near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.       I went there with one old American...

Last Sunday, I went to Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki city in Kanagawa Prefecture, neighboring prefecture to Tokyo. Over there held annual festival named Kanamara-Matsuri. I saw very surprising...

I recently bought and read a very interesting book on Germans living in Japan during 1930's and 40's, when Japan was in war with China and the USA. The Japanese title is...

A story of a man whose father was shot in front of him on the cotton field by a white farmer and later became a house servant of the farmer and then hotel servant and finally was hired by the...

I learnt the queen is called "Her majesty" by this film. Just like Emperor is called "His majesty." The story is just as unrealistic as other films in the series. James Bond went to Switzerland...

Biographic story of Bayern king in 19th century Deutschland (Germany). A young Ludwig succeeded Bayern crown after sudden death of his father. Unlike his father, he never liked war and loved...

A biographic story of Grace Kelly who left Hollywood when she was a top star and got married to the Monaco Prince. I remember TV documentary on her life a long time ago. It was her family's...

I could never understand why a girl like her has become so popular internationally. Her name is Kyary Pamyu Pamyu . She is like Lady Gaga of Japan. Her sales points are very unique...