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29 May 2010

Why not just shrink rather than relocate?

Japanese loopy PM accepted humiliating agreement from the U.S.  He turned down the proposal of relocating US marine base, Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture to off the island. However, if this is going to work out as stated in the agreement is uncertain. Okinawans are now very, very angry with the agreement. So are a lot of Japanese voters. Maybe after July election, he will resign from prime ministerhood.   New government will then have to rethink the agreement. But the good thing is because of this turmoil, more and more people have become aware that the U.S. military is not...

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04 May 2010

Film"Avatar" is like what's happening in Okinawa

James Cameron's world's biggest box hit film after "Titanic". An ex-US Marine man arrived on a planet and joined the native people by getting his brain signals into artificial figure of that native man. His mission was to blend in their community and negotiate with them in order to dig natural resources from their land. Well, I did not really enjoy it because the story was cliche and...

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