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Still seeking understanding from Nago mayor

The head of the Japan Defense Agency is still trying to get Nago residents to agree to a slightly adjusted proposal for relocating the helicopter facilities from Futenma: JDA chief Fukushiro Nukaga met...

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Okinawa governor relents (a bit) on Futenma relocation

The governor of Okinawa has caved, at least provisionally: Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine on Thursday gave broad agreement to a government plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station to...

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温度差

The Yomiuri reports that an amendment to the FY 2010 defense budget may scotch existing plans to relocate our Futenma base on Okinawa: A key U.S. congressional committee has added an amendment to the...

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友愛

Hi, there, you four remaining people who are still checking back to see whether I’ve posted anything. Just to prove this is really Sean, I’ll make this about homosexuality and atheism and partisan...

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ハードル

Yet again “rough going,” as the headline on this Nikkei article has it, for the transfer of the Futenma base: On 30 November, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama confronted a second session, following up...

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重大な決意をしなければならない

The suspected murderer of Lindsay Hawker has been arrested. (Apparently, he was actually discovered, after more than two years of hiding out, last month when I wasn’t paying very good attention to the...

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疑心暗鬼

The lead editorial in the Nikkei this morning carries the headline “Crisis in US-Japan alliance that Futenma postponement will deepen”: The postponement of a decision on the relocation of the US...

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司令塔

Like President Barack Obama, whose campaign themes he consciously adopted, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama faces plummeting popularity figures in the latest poll by the Asahi: Seventy-four...

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利害対立

Are you tired of worrying about what these new “reforms” are going to do to screw over America? Well, you’re in luck, because if you read this post, you can think about how they might screw over our...

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Some Japan stuff

If the plane-grounding Icelandic ash cloud hasn’t been sufficient reminder of how vulnerable we are to nature’s vagaries (and how fortunate that we have such an extensive technological arsenal to...

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