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31 August 2010

Marine Documentary “One Shot, One Kill”

The life in boot camp for new recruits of U.S. Marine Co. in South Carolina. I watched this film in peace event in Okinawa which has US marine facilities, only marine bases outside the U.S. People see it because they want to know how their neighbors are trained before they come to the island.     The documentary film was directed by peace activist film director, Yukihisa Fujimoto. But the film was overall neutral stance, just showing how young recruits become marines who show no mercy when it comes to killing enemies.   The first thing they do is dial their...

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17 August 2010

Why they protest US military base

Anti-US military base activist, Mr. Ashitomi spoke to young students from Palestinean, and Israel with interpreter. He talked about why he set up the tent to monitor nearby US marine base, Camp Schwab. Japanese government recently agreed with the US marine on expansion of the current marine base for the relocation of the Futenma base in Okinawa.   Part 1 is environmetal issue related...

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10 August 2010

Very Constitutional

Found and captured great scene in Henoko beach, where US marines are destroying the natural environment to harm local people. This represents current situation of US-Japan relationship.  ...

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02 August 2010

Japan signed, but the U.S., Russia, China did not!

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