Droll Quarry comments

The one thing to ponder when all your money is in the bank is this...... you don't actually have a penny and the bank only has a digital quark that represents your money. I keep enough "walking around money" in a debit card account to enjoy the day to day convenience of that card. If you have all your money in a bank, you don't really have any money if the SHTF.

The IOC operates with the brown envelope in the forefront of consideration.

Hopefully the government steps in to control their sale.

No... just no. You need to rely on your own accountability and common sense, of which there is way too little of in todays society. Everyone relies on some agency to protect them from their selves, a and take no responsibility for less than intelligent acts. These kids learned a life lesson that they will remember.

It's really regrettable that the Tamaki bloc lost the election.

It's really regrettable what the Tamaki bloc have done to Okinawa. Another poster pointed out the economic woes of Okinawa and its continued last place in prefectural statics. Tamaki spends an enormous amount of money traveling around the world, tugging on world leader's coattail for attention. Meanwhile the schools, basic services and infrastructure languish and rot. It appears that some of the people are seeing past the constant barrage of propaganda from TV and newspapers about the evil military and the "burden" it causes. The Tamaki bloc has always been about staying in power no matter the cost to the Okinawa people. It started with Gov. Ota and has ramped up to fanatical levels when Onaga was gov and secured outside financing for the machine. Tamaki is just following in his predecessor's footsteps.

More tourists....Thank the stars that regulation and covid tanked the Airb&b flareup around our neighborhood. There were two that popped up around my house and there was nothing but trouble from them. Parking issues, noise, trash, cigarette butts over the neighbor's fence, and the list goes on. The "guests" would wander around at night and enter yards, sit in outdoor furniture and were rude if confronted.

Lets not forget the greed and arrogance of the IOC.....

Came home from work last Friday and there was a car with a わ number plate sitting square in the middle of my driveway, not a person in sight. It turns out that a tourist had parked there to walk around to look for a house that was selling pottery. I know this because I parked behind them and locked my car. So many people go on tours and leave their brains at home...........

Greed!

If China did indeed invade Taiwan, it wouldn’t be a proxy war, but an all-fronts all-out war involving more countries than the Global War on Terror.

There is nothing to be gained defending Taiwan. The United States would throw Taiwan to the wolf, just like it did when it was called Formosa.

Sounds good if the coin is going in your pocket, but if you are a resident in one of these areas it sucks. Prices are higher, traffic is a nightmare, shortages of veggies and staples as they are siphoned off to hotels and If you live on Okinawa, residents are faced with the very possibility of water rationing. I can just about guarantee the hotels will scam the system to ensure Joe Tourist can soak in the tub with the hot water running to maintain temperature.

Nissan is an unethical company, just ask Carlos.

Numbers increasing?? Two whales in two years, one last January and one this January does not sound like an epidemic.

If you apply normal Japanese media rationale.... If it's not happening in Tokyo it does not matter.

He thinks his jokes are funny.... or at least he laughs at them.

Too much time and emphasis spent on how fruit and vegetables look and not how they taste. Looking pretty is not cheap as another poster pointed out. I don't know how much these grapes cost, never bought any and don't intend to do so. We always buy the fruit and veggies that are no "suitable" for the supermarket because they do not conform to the shape and color of the ideal, photo book display stereotype appearance. These less than perfect fruit and veggies save us a lot of money and IMHO taste just as good. Anyone up for a 40000 yen melon?

.... Its hard to find competent people to cook your books ....

The church is a religion of peace. It's just a small number of adherents who don't represent everyone there.

And no one noticed the amassing of 6 to 10 billion surplus yen by these adherents? A church or cult of willing participants that couldn't control this "small number of adherents? A few billion yen spent and we will have a rinse and repeat.

Crime pays.............. well!

Try relocating a US base near Tokyo and see what happens!

You would make a fine reporter for Mainstream news outlets. Cherry picking facts and spinning those to support your hatred for the US military. There are three military bases within a stones throw of Tokyo: Yokosuka, Yokota and Atsugi. The the Okinawa Governor and the party block/machine that ensures he gets reelected is funded by outside interests further south that have a lot to gain if the American presence on Okinawa is reduced. When and if, Taiwan falls, Okinawa is next to be assimilated. As the Borg would say, resistance is futile!

That front façade looks like it was copied directly from a 2021 Escalade. For a 170K, a bit more effort in styling would have been appropriate.

At a press conference in Rankoshi, Mitsui Oil President Hidenori Harada stated that the Hokkaido government has instructed the company to cease dumping water outside the site. However, it is expected to take approximately two weeks to construct a pipeline that will redirect the accumulated water to a well about 1 kilometer away.

If that well connects to the water table........... Just sayin.....

@wallace,

Ok, gotta be specific to be terrific

Texas also has and independence movement and it has about as much chance to succeed as the Okinawa one.... which is nil. The overwhelming majority of Okinawa people identify as Japanese. There are a few romantics and hardliners that try to stir up the glory days, but they can't overcome the propaganda machine of the c/party.

There are 440 Nuclear power plants operating in 34 countries. They have been around since 1957 and there have been two and a half major accidents in those 66 years. I don't see anything that warrants the constant hand ringing and sky is falling trope.

China has no history of fostering another land without absorbing them as their own.

Just ask Hong Kong.

.........like a mouse offering a snake cheese.

Not the bland US, NZ Seiji-Ishii stuff. We need good English-style cheddar

....... and make it extra sharp cheddar! Some saltine crackers and an ice cold beer. I appreciate the tradition of wine and cheese, but I'm just not a wine person. Tillamook Creamery makes a decent cheese in the US.

Regardless of creed , color ,identify , gender , or nationality everyone has the right to comment or have an opinion on any such article whether they live in the area of reported article or not.

I agree with this statement. But when people appoint themselves experts and no longer present comments or their opinions and parrot fake or misleading information that it becomes irritating. I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind on anything on this site, but it is interesting to see what is being pushed as the truth.

Oh and the suffering I have experienced here is from fools who dont know what they are talking about.

I agree. If you don't live here and see the propaganda that is pushed daily by the government and media, you cannot fathom the gap in perception and reality, The vast majority of the Okinawa people just want to get on with their daily lives, have meaningful jobs, raise their children and lead a comfortable life. Instead they get reminded of WWII everyday by the local TV stations and newspapers, told how they are being discriminated against and how much better things would be without American bases. The really frustrating part of this is the people outside Okinawa who don't have a clue, chiming in with expert opinions which end up supporting the very political machine that is the cause.

Denny Tamaki is a left-wing politician who would like to belong to China along with former member of the House of Representatives, Ozawa, but the residents do not want that at all.

The political machine that keeps the communist party in power on Okinawa cannot function without Chinese money. You cannot become governor of Okinawa unless you are part of that machine. This party has placed the welfare of the Okinawa people last and ensured Okinawa is dead last as a prefecture. Denny and his cronies burn through an enormous amount of money from the Japanese and American governments and have very little to show for it.