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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

76 Years Ago, An Unspeakable Horror...

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Today marks the 76th anniversary commemoration of the end of the Battle of Okinawa. Here is an article in the Japan Times.  Over half the ...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Invasion of the Academic Body-snatchers: Kyoto University and Ancestral Okinawan Remains

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 Perhaps part of the sensitivity of Okinawan citizens to the matter of human remains being relocated without identification or respect (as p...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Okinawa: Reducing the Burden

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 Elsewhere here I have mentioned that 70%+ of the American military presence in Japan is concentrated in Okinawa. A recent Japan Times artic...
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Surveying Japan's Population

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 The Japan Times English-language newspaper reported recently that a survey of some 3000 persons over 18 years of age on a variety of Japan...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Yoshi Kuzume, promoting peace one T-shirt at a time

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  Professor Yoshi Kuzume of Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan, is a passionate believer in the effect of Article 9 on Japan and po...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

The Last Mission of Kaname Harada

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Kaname Harada woke up sweating. Increasingly, the middle-aged Japanese farmer was experiencing nightmares, horrific visions of the faces...

Back on course from a digression: A Tale of two Rooms

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  Room 4 is mostly dark.  So is another room many kilometres to the north of Room 4. The northern room is situated in the Bikki Atelier 3Moa...