while it's hard to take your mind off the fact that the world's top scientists have just drawn a giant question mark off the coast of chiba and are warning of a possible march11-level tremor, i've been keeping myself busy with more manmade tragedies occurring at the other end of this shaky archipelago
in april, foreign policy in focus ran my postcard from henoko about the american government's overnight rehabilitation of kevin maher into one of their top players in their post-quake clean-up missions...
last month, the japan times ran a feature i wrote about u.s. veterans who are struggling to get the government to admit that it shipped, stored, sprayed and agent orange throughout the island in the late '60s...
today, an article on the birthplace of the okinawan island-wide human rights movement is being run...
will keep you all in the loop always...
jm
