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...Junichiro Koizumi's hometown of Yokosuka will hold a memorial tea ceremony, which he has declined to attend. In Shimane prefecture?where a holiday celebrating the annexation of Takeshima island sparked anti-Japanese demonstrations in Korea earlier this year?one village will honor fishermen who rescued hundreds of Russian seamen during the battle. And in Tsushima, May 27 will be marked with remembrance services and the unveiling of a Russia-financed war memorial...
...last 200 American seamen who left port with supplies for our troops and factories and for our personal consumption, three won't come back. This is a higher casualty rate than exists in the Army, the Navy, or even the Marines...
...Majesty The Decemberists is a worthy follow-up on all counts. The band manages to gently expand its repertoire while retaining everything that made Castaways so endearing. Pre-Marxist revolutionary Colin Meloy is still penning dime-novel tales about dissolute seamen, WWI doughboys, a blindfolded “Jewess” and a rascally “chimbley sweep.” The songs verge on Gothic, but only in a literary sense—driven by nostalgia, they sound as if the Decemberists have never heard anything recorded after 1975, let alone a Cure record...
...invitation to sit at the captain's table. Davien and I, as supernumeraries, sat there for every meal. The master of the Ingrid Oldendorff is Oleksandr Ponomarenko, a tall, handsome Ukrainian man, who genially introduces himself as Alex but is never called anything but "Captain." Like many intelligent seamen, he has a melancholy disposition, which he constantly tries to lighten with humor...
...Before I embarked, I wasn't sure what hanging out with seamen would be like: Would it be a raucous life of "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum"? In fact, the crew was a soft-spoken, temperate lot: for a party of 27, two bottles of booze proved adequate?one indeed was rum, the other scotch. By 9 o'clock only a hard core of officers and supernumeraries were left on deck...