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Everyone knows that legalized prostitution decreases rape. He apologized but didn't mean it and the miltary acted outraged but didn't mean it, it was all for political correctness.

Anyone who reads closely sees that he said "Japan isn't the only one who did wrong (had comfort women)" and "the root of Japan having comfort women is the war to rid Asia of US (western) Imperialism" squarely giving equal blame to the imperialists.

Power hand position?? WTF?. Anyone that notices something like that or plays them type of games certainly feels inferior and doesn't even have power over themselves.

Outlaw knives!

The better questions are "what percentage of comfort women did the job by force" and "were they getting paid and how much" and did the sytem decrease rape of local women"

Idiot knee jerk liberal reaction: Outlaw guns and hunting!!

Common sense conservative reaction: Realized that hunting and lawful gun ownership has been in Japan for over 70 yrs and accidents are extremely rare, then do nothing except remind hunters to be safe and wear hunters orange (blaze orange) as they do stateside (deer are color blind).

I knew a guy who did this and actually got married... later told his wife about it and they laugh about it. She thought it was romantic.

I stop in to get a Y100 icecream cone after I eat sushi at a nearby sushi place.. and about once every two months I get two or three hamburgers *plain, and dip them in ketchup just for something different. If my cholesterol wasn't high, I'd go more often..

Lets outlaw rice cookers now that we found the Boston bombs were made using rice cookers. I think the senate did the right thing.. Obama will use any tragedy to take away your rights. Backround checks don't tap into psyciatrist records of individuals mental illnesses.. they are useless. Also if a felon tries to purchase a gun and a backround check stops him from doing it, nothing is done to the felon, who by the act of trying to buy a gun is committing another felony. The govt claims there is no manpower to do anything about it. Congradulations to congress for setting aside emotion and siding with reason and logic.

Obviously our "friends" in Japan aren't as scared of the so called threat as the US wants them to be.. I say move the Marines out of Japan and Okinawa. If they aren't living up to the secuity agreement in good faith, why should the US tax payer be stuck with the bill.

I wonder how N Korea got the technology to miniaturize nukes to fit on a missle warhead? China maybe? We're fools to think otherwise, we have no friends in Asia except people who want to use us.

haha... you're right but I was saying this because expats are the ones on this discussion. I think the timeline is exaggerated and is a PR stunt to get the Okinawans to "feel good" about getting something if they agree to the Henoko land reclamation. I wouldn't trust them however because promises have been broken before, the most the Okinawans should do is agree to a Kadena merger.

Yubaru, The rest of what you wrote means nothing in the land return discussion so whats your point?

Why people feel as they do has a lot to do with the discussion. A lot of expats don't want to return to the states because they have a good job in Okinawa. Many can't return if they want to keep the family together as they married out of lonliness and now realized the f'd up because the wife is lazy and won't learn english. She wants to stay here in Okinawa near her family, having BX privileges having the best of both worlds. He on the other hand is stuck and feels if the bases leave he will loose his civilian job on base. A bad situation.

The local economy is no expats business, they are a foreigner and do not exactly belong here anyway and should really shut up as bases don't exist for the good of the economy or for their ego's.

It is a PR ploy.. you're right Yubaru and looking at the Okinawa times this morning the timeline is exaggerated.. they could shave up to five years off each "return date" if they wanted to and if they merged Futenma with Kadena.

Yubaru, It wouldn't matter if their were bars in them areas and who owned them.. they are irrelivent and a drag on society anyway. As far as other expats that are "stuck" on Okinawa and have a job on base, they are stray dogs and married a wife that is lazy and won't learn the language so they are stuck on Island if they want to be with their kids because the wife isn't moving to the states.. he is a prisoner to the Island (even if he likes things about it) and wants the bases to remain so he can continue to support his family. There are two or three thousand retirees and others who fit that boat and will say anything on these discussions to stretch the truth (rather than tell the truth about their life) about the importance of the bases for the local economy.

Yubaru: Keep in mind that not everyone "wins" in a situation like this, there are those that will lose, but you'll never hear their stories.

Yeah, most of the bar owners will loose business, about 90% of whom are ex pats that don't want to move to the states or have a wife that won't follow them there so they are stuck on Okinawa trying to make a living. They need the beer drinking GIs running loose. Another group cashing in on the beer drinking GI's is mainland screwballs that come to Okinawa to open a bar to excape the quick life of mainland Japan. In reality, who really cares about them outsiders? It is the locals who I care about. Futenma can be merged on the s/w side of Kadena AB if it is soo important, plenty of room for 5-6 hangars but the Air Force doens't want to move the road into the golf course it seems.

Does the land still get returned to Okinawans if the Okinawans don't agree to give up land for the reclamation project moving Futenma to Henoko? OKinawa is only in danger because the US bases are on Okinawa..

Apparently you have never heard that the Japanese constitution forbids eminent domain for military bases...

In Stars and Stripes a few days ago, a Japanese study said the project would take at least five years!... not practical and the base needs merged with Kadena AB on Okinawa.

Must need a job.. or getting tired of sitting around the house doing nothing, feeling forgotten and useless.. needs a good hobby, like bass fishing or something.

I'd force Kadena AB to take MCAS, like Senators McCain, Levin and Webb suggested. Any General that says it can't be done won't get his second star when leaving Kadena..

The marines aren't needed in Okinawa... simple as that. In fact what would happen if Okinawa was starting to sink into the ocean and it would take five years for that to happen? Where would the US put the bases? I bet the Japanese wouldn't allow them on the mainland.. that's how important they really are, they're outdated relics of the cold war.

The US needs to get rid of all the Marines on Okinawa and move them to Guam, US, Hawaii, Austrailia or anywhere but Okinawa. Americans killed 30% of the civilian pop on Okinawa during the battle with the Japanese soldiers, they've suffered at our hand enough and the Japanese allow it because they don't want to have the troops on the Mainland.

Bertie Wooster is one of the few that have an understanding of the Okinawa situation and doesn't go on the immediate defensive when Okinawa complains about something. Japan and American fight, on Okinawa soil, kill off 30% of the civilian population... later the wolves become trading partners and act as if Okinawa is the enemy for not playing up to the interests of the two aggressors.

Viking... yes there are two Navy bases in Okinawa.. Camp Lester and White Beach Naval port.

Serrano, because even the democrats know it is a dumb law..

Good.. it wouldn't have done squat to fix our mentally ill or keep guns out of criminal hands.

Funerals and Weddings are 10 times more expensive in Japan as they should be.... what a racket!

A lot of men are pathetic lonely creatures that need a "mommy".. I know american guys that marry w/o even being able to speak to their Japanese spouse and some don't sleep together even after the first week.

Another knife tragedy in Japan. They need more control of these knives. Maybe kitchen knives should be less than 6 inches to be legal and only two per household.