Higashi comments

Details Emerge on Flight 93 By Matthew L. Wald

“Of the 33 passengers on the plane who were not hijackers, at least 10, and two crew members, spoke to people on the ground.”

        ——NYT: 22 July 2004

One reason why Japan’s vaccine rollout was so slow according to Minister Kono: Pfizer had included Japanese nationals in vaccine trials conducted in the US, but health ministry insisted on redoing them months later on Japanese soil because of factors like “dietary differences.” 

Time to replace “nihonjinron” with “nihonshokuron.”

       Phillip Lipscy

Commodore Perry. "There are bases located in Mainland Japan and even Hokkaido."

Please name the US base in Hokkaido.

Lara Flint ; Good idea!

I remember separate coaches for allied forces during the Occupation.

Justin Gaitlin - two doping suspensions in his career

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a20864522/justin-gatlin-finds-himself-in-the-eye-of-another-doping-scandal/

“The Japanese government has privately concluded that the Tokyo Olympics will have to be cancelled because of the coronavirus, and the focus is now on securing the Games for the city in the next available year, 2032.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/japan-looks-for-a-way-out-of-tokyo-olympics-because-of-virus-lf868xfnd?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611249451

School start dates

Guatemala = Second Monday of January

South Africa = January 13

Australia = January 27

Kenya = January

Malaysia = Early January

Singapore = Beginning of January

Costa Rica = Early February

Honduras = Early February

New Zealand = Between February 1 – 5

Brazil = First week of February

Chile = Late February

There are other countries that begin later in the year:

Argentina = Beginning of March

South Korea = Beginning of March

Japan = April 1

India = June

Indonesia = Mid-July

What is Ms Hamp's visa status?

English lyrics yume-wa-yoru-hiraku-keiko-fuji

http://www.natsumelo.com/2012/04/keiko-no-yume-wa-yoru-hiraku-keiko-fuji-1970/

American University is in Washington, DC, not Boston.