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30 September 2022

Dear US Government re: request for stopping USMC new base construction in Okinawa, Japan

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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 discontinue and terminate current ongoing landfill construction project to build a new US Marine base runways at Camp Schwab, Henoko, Nago city, Okinawa prefecture. This is the modified version of the...

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12 July 2022

Novel: "Henoko Bar, Stars and Stripes" Chapter 1 "Children Who Don't Know about Wars"

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 time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the Henoko New Base Issue? What was the Vietnam War? What is America? What is Okinawa?   A short story in 9 chapters. Each...

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27 March 2022

Dear US Government re: request for stopping USMC new base construction in Okinawa, Japan

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...

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28 February 2022

Film "Platoon" America is no longer the police of the world

31 May 2021

Dear US Government re: request for terminating USMC new base construction in Okinawa, Japan

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