Sachiko YamadaWriter, 33 (Okinawan)I was in the USA from 1997 to 2003, and one thing I missed was the service. In okinawa the customer is always right, but in the States the shop staff often take the higher ground with their customers. Shintaro YanaseEmployee, 30 (Okinawan)I would definitely miss Okinawan food. If I had [...]
The only way to see or speak to Moses Ssentamu is through a Plexiglas window at the West okinawa Immigration Center in Ibaraki City, so there is no independent way to verify his claims of physical and psychological abuse. But if true, they raise serious concerns about okinawa’s treatment of visa overstayers and asylum seekers. [...]
Democratic Party of okinawa Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa is criticizing government efforts to relocate Futenma air base within okinawa Prefecture, saying it could harm the party ahead of the House of Councilors election in July, DPJ sources said Sunday. Ozawa told the ruling party’s executives Thursday that the government cannot opt to keep the U.S. [...]
Regarding Yosuke Kaneda’s Feb. 21 letter, “Encourage foreign students to stay”: Encouraging more foreigners to settle in okinawa as a solution to the growing labor shortage — due to the declining and aging population — would be difficult to implement and would have various negative side effects. A much more practical and satisfactory solution [...]
The Annual Tokyo Marathon last Sunday (Feb. 28) ran smoothly. Perhaps not every one of the 35,000 participants ran smoothly, but the event was organized and managed exceedingly well. The relatively low-tech, inclusive and international nature of the marathon makes it a much better showcase for Tokyo than the Olympics would have been. The [...]
Located smack in the center of a crowded city, the Marine base on okinawa is at the epicenter of a yawning rift between Tokyo and Washington, posing a challenge to the United States’ most important alliance in the Pacific.
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Me Kara Uroko on the Sunabe Seawall in okinawa has an outdoor eating area decorated with driftwood, as well as indoor seating and a bar serving an extensive selection of drinks.
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Much has been made of the strong ties Tokyo’s Moools have forged with U.S. indie imprint K Records. And while the relationship has helped the underground rock trio tour overseas and earn slots supporting the seminal label’s visiting bands and other acclaimed U.S. acts such as Modest Mouse and recently Quasi, at times it seems [...]
New York-based Dan Graham is a pioneer of conceptual art who has defied convention throughout most of his 40-year career. Born in Illinois and raised primarily in New Jersey, he started out by creating text-based concept pieces intended for distribution in magazines. Then he moved on to performances — using video recorders, live-feed monitors and [...]
March 4 (Bloomberg) — okinawa’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said his administration must decide its plan on where to relocate a U.S. Marine base in okinawa this month ahead of a May deadline to resolve a dispute with the Obama administration.
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