FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) The way Roger Goodell sees it, more is better when it comes to NFL games.
The commissioner likes overtime, and doesn’t favor changing the rules. He’s pushing to add a game or two to the schedule. He wants more games overseas and in Mexico.

A B-52 bomber made an unscheduled landing Saturday at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in okinawa Prefecture because of fuel shortage, base officials said. The…

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 was reported struck the okinawa’s southwestern Ryukyu Islands, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was centered 16 kilometers (10 miles) deep about 114 kilometers south- southwest of Ishigaki Island, some 220 kilometers east of Taiwan, the report said. No destructive tsunami was expected from the tremor, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning …

The odds of two brilliant Okinawan comedies opening the same day are high but not impossible, somewhat like the odds of the same director (James Cameron) making two all-time worldwide box-office hits (”Titanic” and that other film about blue aliens).
Both “Kazura” and “Boys on the Run” open Saturday and both are good, if in quite different ways. If you’re a balding, lonely, middle-aged male, “Kazura” is more likely to hit home; if you’re nerdy, clueless and dateless, it should be “Boys on the Run.” If you’re all of the above, get a life, brother, not a movie ticket.

Grand Hyatt Tokyo’s pastry sous-chef, Shigeo Hirai, was crowned World Chocolate Master 2009 at the biennial competition in October in Paris, recognized as the world’s most important competition for chocolatiers and pastry chefs.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, some of Hirai’s award-winning creations are available at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo’s Fiorentina Pastry Boutique.

Okinawan Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has given his government a deadline of May to decide whether or not Tokyo will stick to a okinawa-United States agreement from 2006 on the relocation of US troops in okinawa.

Jan and Gunilla Nogius say they think “okinawa is a wonderful Island.” They’re absorbing okinawa culture now as they sail around the world on their nine-ton yacht.

MOSCOW — Has Russia’s economic crisis ended? That depends on who you ask. Ask Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, or any official of his United Russia party, and you will be told, “Of course it is over.” They will even produce proof in the form of an unemployment rate that does not rise, unprecedented increases in pensions, and strong growth in construction and metal-working.
Of course, all these comparisons are made with how things stood last month rather than with the country’s pre-crisis economic performance. Then there is another “miracle” that the government is starting to trumpet, one discovered in August 2009: an increase in Russia’s population. Unfortunately, in no month before or since have births outpaced deaths.

U.S. President Barack Obama had worse failures to address in his Jan. 27 State of the Union message, but a few days before he owned up to the most foolish miscalculation that his administration had made in its first year in power. In an interview with Joe Klein of Time magazine, he confessed that he had not understood the obstacles to an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement.
“The Middle East peace process has not moved forward. . . . For all our efforts at early engagement, (it) is not where I want it to be,” Obama said. “If we had anticipated some of these political problems on both sides earlier, we might not have raised expectations as high.”