def said...

def at 02:32 PM JST - 2nd November

We can dream that the bases will leave Okinawa. One day.

Posted in Naha assembly seeks Futenma relocation outside Okinawa, or abroad at 02:32 PM JST - 2nd November
def at 10:11 AM JST - 5th October

Of course a lot of businesses would suffer and the Okinawan economy would be negatively affected

Not true at all. There would be a short negative effect, and a decade later the area would be far healthier. Such was the case with Shintoshin, which is now thriving since the bases…

Posted in New candidate site necessary to move U.S. base facility: Maehara at 10:11 AM JST - 5th October
def at 09:44 PM JST - 4th October

If America is Japan's ally, then there is no need for bases in Japan. Any attack on Japan is an attack on America. That is deterrent enough.

Posted in New candidate site necessary to move U.S. base facility: Maehara at 09:44 PM JST - 4th October
def at 09:57 AM JST - 4th October

Nooooo! Just get rid of the bases already, or get them as far away as possible from the populated areas.

Posted in New candidate site necessary to move U.S. base facility: Maehara at 09:57 AM JST - 4th October
def at 09:55 AM JST - 4th October

in the past decades, we have seen from the west: waterboarding torture-interrogation and new forms of CIA-developed tortures, guantanamo bay (dog collars and religion-based humiliation), depleted uranium munitions, white phosphorus incendiary weapons, landmines, anthrax/mustard gas and all other chemical/biological weapons, etc etc etc.. what, you think that because it's more…

Posted in Film on Japanese occupation of Nanjing wins top prize in San Sebastian at 09:55 AM JST - 4th October
def at 12:17 AM JST - 8th August

If America had dropped the bomb on Iwojima or in some inaka area, Japan's military/government would have been equally scared. America chose a populated target. Twice. A lot of innocents there.

The more you look at 'the bomb', the less justified it was.

Posted in Do you consider the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be war crimes? at 12:17 AM JST - 8th August
def at 12:24 AM JST - 26th June

Shintoshin, Naha has some great restaurants too, though a little less intimate. Loads of yakiniku.

Posted in Naha: A place in the sun at 12:24 AM JST - 26th June
def at 12:21 AM JST - 26th June

I've never been turned down in a bar, club, or izakaya anywhere in Okinawa for being a foreigner, but I never travel in big gangs of foreigners, who might be 'not invited'.

Naha is an okay city, but you need to rent a car and get out of the city.…

Posted in Naha: A place in the sun at 12:21 AM JST - 26th June
def at 09:28 PM JST - 11th February

YES! Japan! You didn't lose!

Posted in Australia vs Japan at 09:28 PM JST - 11th February
def at 12:39 PM JST - 23rd November

Azrael: I smoked pot daily for near 10 years, and am in perfect health, with a child on the way. Pot is a determent to success, but is in no way lethal, and in no way worse than alcohol or tobacco.

Separating marijuana and all other illegal drugs is a…

Posted in Is smoking pot harmless? at 12:39 PM JST - 23rd November