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...glee over a disaster? After one of Japan?s hottest internet companies was revealed to be mired in financial scandal, the Nikkei was sent reeling, and the stock market tumbled 3% two days in a row. An investment firm executive linked to the controversy was found dead in an Okinawa hotel room, an apparent suicide. So why are upstanding members of Japan?s business establishment barely able to contain their happiness? It?s all in how you say ?schadenfreude? in Japanese...
...Olongapo City, the Philippines. The four U.S. Marines, in the country to participate in military exercises, are accused of raping the woman in a van on Nov. 1 at the former U.S. naval base of Subic Bay. The soldiers, who deny the charges, face a court martial in Okinawa in addition to their trial in the Philippines...
...sorting out unfinished business with Japan has become an American priority. On Oct. 26, U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Richard Lawless announced in Tokyo that the two countries had resolved a nine-year standoff over plans to relocate the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the town of Ginowan, Okinawa, to a less populated part of the island chain. The next day, the U.S. Navy announced that Japan had dropped a long-standing objection and agreed to let the Navy replace its 44-year-old, diesel-powered Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, now stationed at Yokosuka, with a newer, nuclear-powered...
...entirely without irony or cynicism, and with such emotion that, without any time to truly process what I had heard, tears welled into my eyes. My mind took off, and was soon tearing through every word I had ever had with my grandfather. I had known he fought on Okinawa, I had even interviewed him about it at some length for a high school history paper, but, polluted by the cynicism that so corrupts our culture, I had never really imagined him capable of anything truly great. Although, in talking to him, bits and pieces of his story suggested that...
...took one turn around the cloud, and then we had to get to the ground as fast as we could because of the gasoline situation. We flew directly to Okinawa. Sweeney put the airplane on a long, slow glide, and as we approached the island, he went on the intercom: "Mayday! Mayday!" There was no response. He used flares but still didn't get an answer. Finally, he called the tower and said, "We're going to land!" We touched down about halfway up the runway and came to a screaming halt right at the end. Later, we ran tests...