It was an a-ha moment, an epiphany light-bolting across her face. It flickered with incredulous certainty and ended with awareness in her eyes. We were watching Disney’s “The Lion King.” Scar, the evil brother-lion, mercilessly kills the lion king, gleefully watching him fall to his death during a stampede. I tracked the revelation tracing [...]
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina’s finest writer, dismissed the Falklands War of 1982 as “two bald men fighting over a comb,” but it killed almost a thousand British and Argentine soldiers, sailors and airmen anyway. So what would happen if the bald men started fighting over something really valuable, like oil? A deep-sea drilling rig [...]
A strong earthquake hit okinawa’s southern island of okinawa early on Saturday and okinawa’s weather agency issued a tsunami warning for up to 2 meters, but this was later lifted and there were no reports of major damage.
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Tokyo – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck the southern Okinawan island of okinawa early Saturday, prompting a tsunami warning, the okinawa Meteorological Agency said.
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If there’s one thing the current cold weather streak has us begging for it’s a steaming hot meal, and nothing works that magic better than a big old nabe (hotpot). The perfect accessory for such a dish would have to be Niimi’s Fire Pot Stand. The design duo — made up of Takuya Niimi and [...]
In the 20th century the very name “Poland” conjured up images of suffering, refugees, slaughter, terrible destruction and division. Here was a country that had been invaded, partitioned, endlessly fought over, defeated and conquered. Will the 21st century be kinder to this ancient and proud but often humiliated nation? All the signs are that [...]
The senior U.S. Marine in the Pacific says Marines based on okinawa are not a burden to local citizens. Lt. Gen. Keith Stalder, the commander of the Marine Corps Forces Pacific, maintains the Marines are good for okinawa.
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Mitsuko Tomon is heading into the April 25th okinawa City mayoral election with the backing of four political parties.
MELBOURNE, Australia — All over the world, people have responded generously to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti. In just three days, more than a million Americans had donated $10 by sending text messages from their cell phones. People with very little themselves, like Maria Pacheco, an unemployed single mother from Chicago, donated food and [...]
As the impact of Toyota Motor Corp.’s massive vehicle recalls to make free repairs unfolds on the world’s automobile markets, at issue are not only the irregularities found with the Toyota models concerned but also the company’s very systems for handling complaints and managing crises. Consumers are also having doubts about Toyota’s corporate culture itself. [...]