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...When I first heard Harvard, my heart sank. My first feeling was 'oh no.' It's not a judgment about the institution, just the way things are changing around here," Devaney said. "It's getting very difficult for people to own their homes and pay their taxes. This is going to devastate us, it really...
...turned to anger, not only in Uwajima but throughout Japan. In the first instance, the understandable object of hostility was the American military. The Japanese, transformed into pacifists by a disastrous war, are profoundly suspicious of military institutions, including their own. In 1988 when a Japanese submarine struck and sank a pleasure boat in Tokyo Bay and sailors stood by while 30 passengers drowned, a wave of resentment against the military swept the country. In recent years American service personnel in Okinawa?who make up half of the 47,000 stationed in Japan?have been similarly subjected to censure...
...businessmen's visit was arranged by retired Admiral Richard Macke, who was forced to resign in 1996 after suggesting that three U.S. servicemen who raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead. And this wasn't the first time a U.S. Navy submarine sank a ship named Ehime Maru: another U.S. sub had sunk a freighter by the same name during World...
...Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori came under attack from members of both his governing party and the parliamentary opposition for his decision to continue with a game of golf after hearing the news that the U.S.S. Greeneville collided with and sank the fishing trawler Ehime Maru off Hawaii. Nine people are still missing and feared dead. It is the latest in a series of gaffes that have made Mori one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers ever. Lawmakers in the three-way governing coalition are nervous about the threat of a thrashing in an election for the parliament's upper...
...businessmen's visit was arranged by retired Admiral Richard Macke, who was forced to resign in 1996 after suggesting that three U.S. servicemen who raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead. And this wasn't the first time a U.S. Navy submarine sank a ship named Ehime Maru: another U.S. sub had sunk a freighter by the same name during World...