Ban on off-base drinking after midnight imposed on U.S. military in Okinawa

mindovermatter at 09:38 AM JST - 13th June

Ban on off-base drinking after midnight imposed on U.S. military in Okinawa

Good! They should have did this a long time ago... And it should a ban on ALL Drinking Off-Base, period...

Then next time, one of those racist natives gets their teeth knocked out, for starting a fight with a Marine, they won't have any reason or recourse... Because you take the Alcohol out of the equation and you better be able to prove the american started it, or else the CO of that base will tell the J-Cops to kiss-his white butt... Because SELF-DEFENSE is ALLOWED... I'd bet 100% of those guys who got arrested in Okinawa in the past, were drunk... And as far as the Military is concerned, you are automatically guilt as charged, if you have any bit of alcohol in your system...PERIOD... It's been that way for 40 years.... No trial, no jury, no investigation, if you were drinking, you are AUTOMATICALLY 100% at fault... take em away j-cops...

Good, I am waiting to see Okinawans lose their reason / probable cause to have some jar-heads arrested... I'll bet Okinawans will be on their best behavior now... After they find out, that the marines are allowed to defend themselves... Not to mention, that eliminating the alcohol, will also eliminate 99.99% of the trouble-maker marines...

@mikehuntez - sorry JapanToday, you can't delete this post...!

mindovermatter at 07:31 PM JST - 12th June

@mikehuntez

You people are blinded by your rage against Japan for doing limited whaling and calling it research so you just can't accept that Sea Nazis are wrong. Well at least Pete B can ponder this in jail. The rest of you go back to your daily lives and ponder this. Maybe if you join the Sea Nazis you can go along next year and make your own decisions about how "correct" they are.

I don't know what you're smoking...? But doing drugs in Japan is Illegal... You should be careful, or you'll end up in a jail cell next to this whale activist...

I am NOT condoning this Wacko-Nutjob's actions in the least bit, but if you haven't taken notice, He was apprehended, within a couple hundred miles of HIS OWN COUNTRY... Thousands of miles away from Japan, matter of fact, not even in the same Hemisphere...

This is Japan, feeling it's oats... Even the U.S. would have turned over this wacko back to his own country, as the u.s. military regularly does when they take trips to that part of of the world... These green-peace wackos try to ram their ships against anything nuclear, even aircraft carriers, AND NOT ONLY within the jurisdiction of New Zealand or Australia... happens all the time... Matter of fact, the only time, the U.S. doesn't turn over suspects, back to their originating country is when their activities involve terrorism... It's pretty cut-n-dry...

Now you have Japan, because it likes hunting whales in that part of the world, all of a sudden, seeing what it can get away with.... Oh, let's just brand these green-peace guys as Terrorist...

NOT QUITE...!

I am waiting to see what happens if they try to take some Americans... Good luck with that Japan.. And thank god for the SOFA... Keeping, the racist element within Japan at bay and away from the mob mentality of 12 year olds, which it can quickly return to, at the drop of a hat... Been here 30 years... I don't know everything about japan, but there's not much I haven't seen... Japan has a long way to go... And if you think for one instant, that Japan is a developed country... You are smoking crack...

Spot on sarcasm123!

• sarcasm123 at 12:07 PM JST - 9th May

  And it does not matter what "the Japanese" did.

  Uh??? I matters 100%. If the Japanese had not done whatthey did they would not have been bombed. How can you say it doesn't matter?? The US did not bomb - say - Canada, as Canadians did not aggressively invade half of Asia. The Japanese did, hence they got bombed. So, what "the Japanese" did, DOES matter.

  Neither the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nor the people behind this museum are "the Japanese".

  Can you tell me about people from Hiroshima and Nagasaki at that time protesting against the actions their country did? No, you can't, because they didn't. They supported it, along with > 99% of all other Japanese.

  Its really not that hard to understand is it? You don't shoot Jack's wife and child for what Jack did. You shoot Jack.

  How does this apply on Japan"s actions? Jack (the US) starts some embargos on Japan, so Japan invades Jack's wife (Asia). Are you trying to tell us that Japan was any better than the US? Again, if Japan had not done what it did, it wouldn't have gotten bombed.

  The denial of other Japanese is irrelevant.

  It is VERY relevant. The Japanese are on track to FORGET everything, except the things where they were the victims. In 50 years their view on history will be like this: "We Japansese were doing nothing wrong, when suddenly those bad Americans came and dropped 2 bombs on our cities, without any warning". You might not oppose to such views, but I can assure you that I and many others do.

  Do I feel bad for the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Yes. But, do I feel more bad for the victims of the Japanese actions? Yes. Do I feel the bombs were justified? If it helps reducing the total number of vicimts of the cruel Japanese actions, by all means: YES. The actions of the Japanese are the cause of their suffering. Don't twist the logical flow of the events.

  That statements by yahoos in black vans is irrelevant.

  The Japanese people as a whole do not seem to oppose the yahoos in black vans.

  The government textbooks are irrelevant.

  The Japanese people as a whole do not seem to mind that their govenment is rewriting history.

  Japan is supposed to be a democracy. What the people want shall be done. So, apparently, the Japanese as a whole want to rewrite history, and forget all about the bad things Japan did, while keeping everyone around the world reminded of the A-bombs.

  Totally and absolutely irrelevant, contrived and hypocritical.

  HYPOCRITICAL?? WHO is hypocritical? The Japanese are. It is the Japanese who whine on and on about being bombed, while not mentioning a word (yes, even denying) everything they did.

  You cannot justify the murder of innocent civilians because of what a guilty military did!

  Again, can you tell me a few people from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who opposed the actions of the Japanese military? I will be kind to you: I will be even happy if you can tell me about some group in Hiroshima and Nagasaki opposing them NOW, not at the time.

  You can't. There are none. They are completely silent on the subject. And you are calling ME hypocritical.

  They just want the horror of the A-bombs recognized to ensure that it does not happen again.

  Yes, you are right. They want the horros of the A-bombs, AND ONLY THE A-BOMBS, recognized.

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  mindovermatter at 12:32 PM JST - 9th May

  @MistWizard

  First of all, NO ONE is saying the bombings were a GREAT thing to do... It's an unfortunate act that Japan, brought upon itself. It was given numerous opportunities to end the conflict, long before, it came to that... So you might say, that spirit of "Ganko" ultimately caused the Japanese people to suffer. It was the END of a war, NOT the beginning of the hundreds of attacks that Japan perpetrated on the rest of asia.

  It Ended a War and prevented a costly ground invasion, for Americans AND THE JAPANESE... PERIOD!

  And If you want to throw out this argument, because, you didn't know how evil Japan was...? Ha ha ha... It's like, "We'll as far as you knew, we were innocent..." Huh...?

  I am not going to spend a lot of time trying to convince you, there's a say, "There's no use in arguing with a fool."

  Here's some good reading for you! http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/17/opinion/17iht-edsteve.t.html

  BTW: where's the museums in Japan dedicated to their victims in Asia...? I don't remember seeing any memorials to the hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Philippino's, and the other asians that Japan killed...?

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  mindovermatter at 12:32 PM JST - 9th May

  @MistWizard

  First of all, NO ONE is saying the bombings were a GREAT thing to do... It's an unfortunate act that Japan, brought upon itself. It was given numerous opportunities to end the conflict, long before, it came to that... So you might say, that spirit of "Ganko" ultimately caused the Japanese people to suffer. It was the END of a war, NOT the beginning of the hundreds of attacks that Japan perpetrated on the rest of asia.

  It Ended a War and prevented a costly ground invasion, for Americans AND THE JAPANESE... PERIOD!

  And If you want to throw out this argument, because, you didn't know how evil Japan was...? Ha ha ha... It's like, "We'll as far as you knew, we were innocent..." Huh...?

  I am not going to spend a lot of time trying to convince you, there's a say, "There's no use in arguing with a fool."

  Here's some good reading for you! http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/17/opinion/17iht-edsteve.t.html

  BTW: where's the museums in Japan dedicated to their victims in Asia...? I don't remember seeing any memorials to the hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Philippino's, and the other asians that Japan killed...?

Japan displeased by U.S. paper column calling Hatoyama 'loopy'

mindovermatter at 09:18 PM JST - 16th April

What you all have missed here is that the

Balh, blah, blah, blah....

Not this same, oh... "We are the victims Japanese Remember...???"

I can't remember how many times I've heard Japanese leaders, politicians, foreign ministers, Japanese press, etc... Talk smack about how the U.S. did such and such, and that american leader "Insert Name" is all screwed up, and this kind of rhetoric is circulated, on a weekly, if not daily basis inside of Japan... The only thing, nobody in the U.S. really gives a damn about what some racist oyaji in Japan said about so and so.... So it dies a quiet death, nobody listens to this BS rhetoic...

Oh, but don't give us a taste of our own medicine... Probably because the Washington post has more readers in two or three large cities, than any japanese scandal tabloid could ever wish to have...

Come on guys... It's grow up time...! Time to start recognizing International laws, International human rights, ending racial discrimination and getting on board with REAL UN-White-Washed History... Japanese kids today, really need to know what your country did 60 years ago, and all the good america did for you... And more importantly what they didn't do... Like the 60 years of utter slavery and torture that you Japanese Perpetrated on nearly every one of your asian neighbors... But instead, you were given, democracy, womens rights, a booming capitalistic system, and the last time I looked, Japan doesn't look anything like North Korea... Which is what it would have, had the U.S. let russia take half of Japan...

So bottom line guys, Grow-Up and respect the people that gave YOU so much! You are welcome for your freedom! Please enjoy it, but please remember where and how you got it! (Hint: by the grace of OUR American forefathers)

Not even close Kumasan!

kumasan1969 at 05:13 AM JST - 4th April

Japan wasn't, but citizens of Hiroshima were. Uncontrolled anger is also evil. Fighting against evil does not necessarily make one "good side." America wasn't really "good."

mindovermatter at 10:16 AM JST - 4th April

Japan wasn't, but citizens of Hiroshima were. Uncontrolled anger is also evil. Fighting against evil does not necessarily make one "good side." America wasn't really "good."

Here we go again...

This is must be the standard line that all Japanese are taught to use, when confronted with any facts of history, that don't show Japan as a Victim...

"Oh, well America did it too!"

No.... America never invaded and killed 300,000 people in Nankin, innocent civilians, there isn't any comparison at all.

And Unless you are 85+ years old, it's highly unlikely YOU, "Kumasan" participated in any of these atrocities, and no one is blaming you, but what the world really needs to hear from Japan, and people like you, is that you understand what happened 60+ years ago, so that it will never happen again...!

Man (NO HE's a FRICKEN BOY!) 19, arrested for beating girlfriend's 2-yr-old son to death

mindovermatter at 05:34 PM JST - 29th March

19-year-old man

I really like this... One minute, they are boys and girls, if you are referring to someone under 20 years of age, because they are minors in Japan, and the Next minute they are MEN and WOMEN....

No...This kid, this boy, is just a fricken kid... another one of the 120 million boys and girls that reside here... Their biological age and appearance may change, but their mentality and level of maturity will remain largely unchanged from age 8 until age 70...

your assertion that the 'majority' of Japanese people needed these things.

Not only is it TRUE, Fxxx yea, it's true... Sorry, if you are one of the 120 million Japanese, much like the Kakapo Parrot, the Japanese Person, "The ancient, flightless Kakapo is the world's rarest and strangest parrot" and so are the average Japanese..."

Common-sense AND Teaching the difference between RIGHT and WRONG... Not just how to be polite and what university they should attend (to learn absolutely nothing at all..)

More JapanToday BS...

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@cliffworks
Perp comes within 100 mtrs of my home nightly to play
billiards in a pool club on my street. I have met J lawyers and crime
journalists,

Would love to help you with this matter, free of charge... Violent
Accidents happen everyday, and some people need to be reminded of
that...if you take my name and add a couple zero's and a one and throw
a gmail behind it, I would love to know more...

What a Fuckin piece of work.... "sabiwabi" Really wish I could meet you!

@sabiwabi

Ha ha ha ha...

You are truly a piece of work....

This must be where all the war criminals gather...

I'm sure you believe Nanking and unit-731 were the right things to do...

Ha ha ha ha ha....

Stay OUT of MY JAPAN!

You're Welcome for your freedom and the right to breath MY AIR!

What a piece of work....

Here's a Prime Example of what's wrong with Japan!

sabiwabi at 05:09 PM JST - 18th December

Look at Germany, that have Museums and monuments dedicated to the memory of their victims... Auschwitz, etc..

Yes, Germany has become one the most spineless nations on Earth. I truly hope they regain their courage and free themselves from those lies.

Then original crimals cam back and kicked the new neighbor out...

I'm glad you realize that those who defeated Japan were the original criminals (stealing, raping...). However, please go a step further: those same criminals are the same who tell us Japan are the bad guys! One should be very suspicious of such accusations...

NO YOU ARE A FUCKIN WAR CRIMINAL!

I'm sure you believe yourself to be racially superior.... ha ha ha ha..

ANYTIME YOU PUNK!!!