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...Others later do. For about an hour she dances and drinks with a black American former serviceman and Okinawa resident. She tells him she moved to Okinawa a month before and is working at a hospital. Her American boyfriend is in the U.S., she continues. When they decide to leave together, the American says something to a friend about money?13, to be exact. "I do not look 13," the girl fumes, misunderstanding him, and abruptly returns...
...film is opening at a sensitive moment in Japanese-U.S. relations. The recent alleged rape of a Japanese woman on Okinawa by a U.S. serviceman once again sparked an outcry against the continued presence of 47,000 U.S. troops in the country. Further, for many Japanese citizens, Pearl Harbor recalls not the surprise attack of a half-century ago but the accidental sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing trawler, by a U.S. Navy submarine earlier this year. News accounts of the film's U.S. premiere in Pearl Harbor focused on the proximity of the Navy carrier...
Once, not so long ago, no one wanted to be Tiger Woods. Especially Tiger, with his cafE-au-lait complexion and American serviceman father. Today, Eurasians are the flavor du jour, not only in the U.S., where mixed-race citizens personify the American melting pot, but even more so in Asia, where race-conscious policies are often encoded in law. In Indonesia, where until recently ethnic Chinese were barred from writing in their own script, the hottest celebrities are indos, or mixed-race folks like actors Karina Suwandi and Ari Wibowo. In Bangkok, where the local skin trade has spawned...
...have become "hostages" days ago? Had the spy ("reconnaissance"?) plane been forced down in North Korea, we as a nation would have long since gone to our closets and updated those old T-shirts of Mickey Mouse giving the Ayatollah the finger. What separates a "hostage" from a "serviceman" is, apparently his or her captor's ability to put up a fair fight, to buy a lot of Coca-Cola and to supply us with bargain-priced sneakers...
...relished the celebrity and in fact was the focus of more attention at the air base than even Defense Secretary Cohen or Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh Shelton. "Thank you for making us proud of what we do," said a serviceman. But a more senior official, standing back in the crowd, gave a cautious critique: "We're being pressed to become the world's policeman, but we don't have the will or the military structure to do it right. Nor do we have a rational method of picking where we'll get involved. Give us a clear...