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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 aircrafts and associate with servicemembers working there. Near the entrance I saw a very peculiar object. A statue of Douglas MacArthur who was a head of G.H.Q and SCAP organization during U.S. occupied Japan era (1945 to 1952). He entered Japan through this Air Base to occupy the whole of Japan.  What was very peculiar was the description carved below the statue. It was...

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 State University, where I majored in International Relations. I am now working as a translator using the English knowledge I acquired in the US. I am writing this letter to urge US government to...

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...

  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...

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...