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French film: ”SIMONE, Woman of the Century,...
I just saw the film at a small theatre in Tokyo. It was a biopic about the French politician who lived through holocaust and after the war became a lawyer and the minister of French government and became the first female president of European Union assembly. She helped promote w... Read more ...
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Novel: ”Henoko Bar, Stars and Stripes” Chapter...
The novel is based on this issue and my own experience. In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the Henoko New Base Issue? What was... Read more ...
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Film ”Platoon” America is no longer the police...
Academy winning film (1986) directed by Oliver Stone. A young American boy joined the military force combatting in South Vietnam, and witnessed the hell including division within the comrades. Although it gained a good reputation, it wasn't as good as I expected. I liked "Bo... Read more ...
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Obama's visit to Hiroshima and Mass shooting in...
Last month, US president Obama paid visit to Hiroshima and hugged survivor of the atomic bomb which the U.S. force dropped onto the city. For most Japanese he was very much welcomed because he was the first sitting president who paid visit although he never apologised for the ato... Read more ...
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Dear Fellow Americans, JFK Exhibit is held in...
I went to the exhibition of John Fitzgerald Kennedy at National Archives of Japan located near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. I went there with one old American couple whose young days were when JFK were alive as US President. They told me that the assass... Read more ...
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Film: ”The Railway Man” We are all humans
The story based on autobiography of former British military personnel in charge of radio communication, Eric Lomax, who became POW of Imperial Japanese Army in occupied Singapore during the second world war. Even after the war he suffered from trauma caused by his experience as POW in Thai... Read more ...
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Film”EMPEROR” Honne (true feeling) and Tatemae...
I just saw the film. It was not excellent but not bad, actually it was good considering it was made by Americans. It was indeed made from American perspective but thoroughly desriptive about Japanese personality and culture. The story was based on memoirs of a former military officer who did re... Read more ...
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Who won the war?
A decade has passed since that incident. The U.S. declared global war on terror. The U.S. sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. After all, did the U.S. win? The U.S. killed Hussein and Binladen. But the Taliban wasn't defeated. They now revived their momentum gaining support from the loc... Read more ...
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Assange was arrested, next is me?
I guess not, but I did kind of similar thing to what he did. But much more minor scale. An Australian whistle blower site manager, a former hacker was arrested for alleged sexual offense filed by Swedish police. Since US government information he leaked in collaboration with US milita... Read more ...
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Japan signed, but the U.S., Russia, China did not!
Who contributes to the world peace? Read more ...