Ever read a menu at a backpackers' hostel in India? They should
save their charming grasp of English and only have one item: flies.
As in would you like chicken tikka with your flies?

Or my favorite, a "cheese" sandwich, i.e, one slice of something
that remotely resembled cheese between two slices of "bread" so
full of rat hair that after you picked it all out you were too
exhausted to eat the one ounce of what was left. At which point
the rats would come back and reclaim it.

How much money might we save by closing, say, thirty of those thirty-nine bases?

Gee, I had no idea that MEMRI did Japanese to English translations.

I have read that many Okinawans hate all those bases because they use up some of the best land. Right? Probably an unreasonabe, unstainable situation.

I am alive because my father was wounded by a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, which made him quite happy, because he knew he would survive the war. He recuperated on Guam and shipped back to the states where he met my mother.

James Fallows, happy birthday!

If you happen to be out and about in the Washington Note universe, your fans wish you the happiest 60th birthday!

Posts like this on a FP blog do not look much, hm, diplomatic ?

This stuff should be reserved for engrish.com, not a "foreign policy" blog.