Japan Town, San Francisco…

One of the films I watched back in California, and was very touched by, is one made by a Japanese visiting scholar, Masako Sakata, on the devestating effect of Agent Orange, used widely by the US forces in Vietnam during the war. In the case of Masako, the movie was literally a personal requiem as [...]

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From Al-Jazeera…
Japan has said it is seeking to build an anti-missile system as quickly as possible and will move its Air Defence Command to a US military base.
The missile system will cover all of East Asia and have the potential to reach the northern tip of Australia and part of Alaska, a Japanese defence [...]

From AP…
A panel of Japanese lawmakers approved a two-year extension on Monday of the country’s air force mission in Iraq, brushing off criticism that Tokyo should distance itself from Washington’s increasingly unpopular war there.
The approval was a further victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is trying to raise Japan’s military profile around the [...]