Regarding the Nov. 25 article “Hatoyama silent on funds probe”: This absurd saga of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s shady political funds is merely another example of why donations to individual politicians should be banned completely. Under the current system there are just too many opportunities for corrupt practices to continue, and investigating them is a [...]
KYOTO — Last week’s announcement by President Barack Obama that the United States would pursue a 17 percent cut in greenhouse gases compared to 2005, followed by China’s announcement of its own emissions reductions target, are positive signs that an agreement will be reached at next month’s Copenhagen conference, Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Fukuyama said [...]
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and okinawa Gov Hirokazu Nakaima will hold talks Monday in Tokyo over the relocation of a U.S. military airfield in okinawa…
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Imagine being at sea for days, sailing in utter silence, not a land mass in sight to disturb the ocean view. Slowly, faintly, a voice sings a beautiful melody that grows in intensity as it draws you to her island, like the sirens in Homer’s “The Odyssey.” This perhaps best describes the “Kirilola effect,” a [...]
Steven Soderbergh’s latest, “The Informant!,” comes off like the smartest, funniest kid in the class — a wiz at everything he does from physics to basketball, but somehow friendless. His sin lies in being too clever for his own good and too self-satisfied to hide it. Kids like him would be better suited to [...]
Alejandro R. Ruiz Sr., 85, an Army infantryman in World War II who received the Medal of Honor for single-handedly storming a Okinawan machine gun bunker — twice — during the battle of okinawa, died Monday at a hospital in Napa, Calif. He had congestive heart failure.
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The assembly in Nago, okinawa Prefecture, demanded early Thursday morning that the governor of Kanagawa Prefecture retract his recent remarks in support of an existing…
According to the United Nations, more than 1 billion people — one of every six persons on this planet — go hungry each day. In a world of unprecedented prosperity, that statistic is shameful. More appalling still, the number of undernourished individuals is growing despite rising levels of affluence and wealth. It is a moral [...]
I magine befriending Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Facebook. Or getting “tweets” from Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on Twitter. It could happen if Tokyo follows Washington’s lead. This summer, okinawa, like the United States last year, opted for a new government. Snubbing the Liberal Democratic Party after a more than 50-year ruling streak, [...]
With the holiday season creeping up, the staff of okinawa Living magazine is recommending its ‘The Best of okinawa Living’ publication as the ideal Christmas gift for friends and family here and back home.
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