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Dear US Congressmembers and Senator Re:Okinawa...
Rep. Don Bacon, Rep. Ruben Gallego, Rep. Seth Moulton, Rep. Jack Bergman, Rep. Steve Womack, and Senator Marsha Blackburn, who met Mr. Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan and discussed Okinawa USMC new base construction issue in third week of October 2019 My name is M... Read more ...
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Dear US Ambassador to Japan, regarding Okinawa...
I sent a letter to US Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Bill Hagerty today. It should be handed to him next Monday hopelly. The below is what I wrote to him. Dear Mr. Ambassador Hagerty, June 24, 2018 My name is MASAGATA, a Japanese man living in Tokyo. I used to study at San Franci... Read more ...
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Trump is the very American President
The world is shocked by white supremacists' march and subsequent terror attack to its counterprotestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, and President Trump's response to the incident. To me, it was the same day I participated in a peace march protected by the police force and met with nation... Read more ...
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US Marine Osprey crashed in Okinawa, Japan!...
An osprey (helo-plane type flying vehicle) crashed on the coast of Nago city, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Dec 13. A major accident finally occurred 4 years after deployment in Okinawa. That was in fact, anticipated 4 years ago. Read this post . The crash site was near the US Marine Camp Schw... Read more ...
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Okinawans are Rosa Parks and LIBERTARIAN
I stayed in Takae district, Higashi village in Okinawa Prefecture last week. I have been there more than 10 times in last 7 years. Okinawa is southernmost prefecture, 3 hour flight from Tokyo, which is tropical and whose population is 1.4 million. It is like Hawaii or Guam in the U... Read more ...
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US Marine helipad construction drives precious...
It is happening in Takae district, Higashi Village, Okinawa Island Prefecture, southernmost tropical region in JAPAN. The population of the prefecture is about 1.4 million. 3 hour flight from Tokyo. Kind of remote from main 4 islands of Japan. It is like Hawaii in U.S. ... Read more ...
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Film ”Pride” The oppressed united
I just happened to know this film while participating in Tokyo Pride Parade event. It was British movie. The Japanese title was "Parade e Yokoso (Welcome to the Parade)" The story is based on facts. In 1980's coal miners did strike against Thatcher adminisitration's policy to close down un... Read more ...
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Film”The Butler” Is that a story of Barak Obama?
A story of a man whose father was shot in front of him on the cotton field by a white farmer and later became a house servant of the farmer and then hotel servant and finally was hired by the White House. It is a fiction but it is based on a real batler who served the White House from 1950... Read more ...
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Puff the magic dragon, lived by the sea, in the...
I saw the dragon there, in Henoko, Okinawa prefecture, southernmost chain of the islands in Japan. You might not believe that. This is the proof. Yes, it looked like rainbow. But the sea is known to be sacred place for the dragon. The locals worship it and established a shrine on the... Read more ...
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Dinner at LA TOUR D'ARGENT reminds me of what's...
Year of 2014 started. On one of new year's days I was invited to the dinner at Tokyo's most expensive French cuisine restaurant, LA TOUR D'ARGENT. It is located in The Hotel New Otani Tokyo, one of Japan's high class hotel chain. The below photo is me in kimono at the wait... Read more ...