Category Page for: Japan

Marines On Okinawa Ordered Not To Drink After Midnight

» by GI Korea September 10th, 2011 at 9:09 am » Comments (6)

Here is a major change for servicemembers stationed on Okinawa: Marines on Okinawa are no longer allowed to drink alcohol after midnight at off-base bars and restaurants, according to a revised ...more »

Are Japan’s Right Wing Ultra-Nationalists Really Koreans?

» by GI Korea August 27th, 2011 at 4:46 pm » Comments (31)

Some how I find this story via Japan Probe hard to believe that ethnic Koreans in Japan are going around masquerading as right wing ultra-nationalists in order to give conservatives ...more »

Kevin Maher Comments On Japanese Response To Nuclear Crisis

» by GI Korea August 18th, 2011 at 5:25 pm » Comments (3)

Kevin Maher is in the Japanese news again this week. ROK Heads may remember that Maher was the State Department official in Okinawa that was sacked when Japanese students conspiring ...more »

Was Agent Orange Spilled On Okinawa?

» by GI Korea August 14th, 2011 at 2:11 am » Comments (6)

Via a reader tip comes news that now former US military veterans that served on Okinawa claim that Agent Orange was buried there: In the late 1960s, the U.S. military buried ...more »

Japanese Protest Against Korean Wave

» by GI Korea August 10th, 2011 at 4:57 pm » Comments (36)

I thought some of these Dokdo protesters were stupid, but these protesters in Japan are even worse: Around 500 demonstrators gathered around Fuji TV headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday to protest ...more »

Hiroshima Marks 66th Anniversary of Nuclear Bombing

» by GI Korea August 6th, 2011 at 5:42 am » Comments (30)

With the ongoing Fukushima crisis this years anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima is a bit different: The Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday marked the 66th anniversary of the ...more »

Picture of the Day: Japanese Villages Thank US Military

» by GI Korea August 1st, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (8)

Via Japan Probe comes news of how a number of Japanese villages are thanking the US military for their disaster relief response: Many of the places where U.S. personnel worked were ...more »

Large Brawl Leads to Off Limits Order For Personnel at Yokota Air Base

» by GI Korea July 19th, 2011 at 5:19 pm » Comments (17)

I have seen some brawls in the villes in Korea, but never one as large as this melee outside Yokota AFB in Japan: Bars near the front gate of Yokota Air ...more »

Tsunami Ravaged Sendai Reopens Airport Due To US Military Help

» by GI Korea June 30th, 2011 at 6:50 am » Comments (2)

This must be a good feeling for all the US military troops that helped with the clean up of this airport: Once a tangled, muddy mess of vehicles, dead bodies and ...more »

Picture of the Day: Before & After of the Japanese Tsunami Recovery

» by GI Korea June 16th, 2011 at 12:51 pm » Comments (0)

Here are some pictures from the Daily Mail via the Marmot's Hole of the progress made in recovering from the Japanese tsunami 3 months ago: There is a whole lot more ...more »