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Okinawa: Home to 39 US Military Installations

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I'm not meaning to mock anyone with this -- but here again is another priceless picture from a TWN reader visiting Okinawa, Japan -- which is speckled with nearly 40 separate US military institutions.

At some point though, one has to wonder whether these signs are really accidents or done on purpose to add to the charm?

-- Steve Clemons

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Reader Comments (8) - post a comment

Posted by Outraged American, Aug 01 2009, 12:21PM - Link

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.

Posted by Bart, Aug 01 2009, 4:34PM - Link

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

Posted by PissedOffAmerican, Aug 01 2009, 10:46PM - Link

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

Posted by RollMyEyes, Aug 01 2009, 11:22PM - Link

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.

Posted by brigid, Aug 02 2009, 3:42AM - Link

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.

Posted by WigWag, Aug 02 2009, 9:22PM - Link

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!

Posted by Hans Suter, Aug 03 2009, 9:58AM - Link

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

Posted by Rukasu, Aug 05 2009, 11:00AM - Link

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