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Now this might not seem at all interesting (at first) but if you read carefully thru it, you find some interesting and potentially useful facts.."Airmen who upload videos on the Air Force’s BlueTube site follow similar procedures. BlueTube, a video-posting site connected to YouTube, launched in October and has had more than 30,000 videos viewed, said Air Force Capt.

In the movie, the girl was 16 when she was abducted, and now — at 26 — she journeys to Chicago with an unclear intent, perhaps only to find out what happened to her assailants after they were released from prison and to make sure they know how the incident scarred her for life.

Zenchuro, the largest labor union for Japanese employees on U.S. military bases on Okinawa, has sent out a clear message — it wants military bases to stay.

The labor union earlier this month decided to part from the Okinawa Peace Activity Center, an umbrella organization of anti-base groups and unions demanding the closure of all military bases on the island.

Hamburgers are luring customers to visit the highly competitive fast food stores, where Okinawa has eight per 100,000 residents. Tokyo, by comparison, has 7.1 and Osaka only 4.1. A total of 107 hamburger shops are currently operating on Okinawa.

sometimes that poor place seems like a trainwreck.

Try this: Close your eyes - say 3 words - Japan + Marines + Crime..and I would put money on the word Okinawa popping out of your mouth.

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In this video scientists explore underwater structures found off the coast of Okinawa. These Structures are under 40-100 ft of water. Scientists say the last time these structures would have been above water was 10,000 years ago during the ice age twice as old as the great pyramids of Egypt.

When a columnist for the Japan Times examined crime statistics for the prefecture in February, he said he was shocked to learn the per capita arrest rate for SOFA-status Americans on Okinawa was half the rate of the prefecture’s general population. "It’s particularly surprising when you consider that almost half the U.S. military population is 25 years old or younger," wrote Michael Hassett.

Though the tree restaurant in Onoyama Park, Okinawa looks like an environmentalist dream come true, the thing actually is nothing but a concrete structure dressed up to look like a living tree. I wonder if they have little robotic birds and bugs crawling around...