According to Japan Probe, the Yomiuri Shinbun is reporting some new details in the case of the Japanese taxi driver found stabbed to death after driving a U.S. sailor from Tokyo to Yokosuka: According to the police, the sailor, a U.S. citizen of Nigerian origin, told U.S. Navy investigators that
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When you can’t be in Hong Kong where you should be, what do you do? Get dragged by the S.O. to an antique market of course. Which except for the lack of drunken female company is not really so bad. This market is actually a street sale in Tennocho which
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After he got married. He went into a slump for a while. Rumor had it that the Swedish model was sapping all of his strength. So if the Yankees tank this year you will know why: SURPRISE, Arizona – New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui will marry a 25-year-old former
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Is pretty boring as it turns out: YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa — A credit card in the name of a U.S. sailor is the only material link to his possible involvement in the slaying of a taxi driver here last week, police said. Apart from the credit card belonging to the sailor,
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I went out for a run this morning. Today was a beautiful spring day-still not really warm-but not cold either. Exactly as predicted by the Japanese Agencies the Sakura started blooming on 23 March. How they can figure that out is beyond me, but they are 99% right. The blooming
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If you are in the US or Japanese Navy, yesterday was just not a good day. On the US side: Lions and tigers and metal detectors oh my! That’s right, make sure you have a clean pair of boxers on if you are going through the gate of Yokosuka Naval
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Yokosuka-20 March 2008. A taxi driver was found murdered. They think it was done by an American. How soon do you think the finger will be pointed at an American Sailor? My advice? Stock up on liquor for the impending lock-down. Update: “Going through the base gate this evening, the whole
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The news that is-personal and professional. Besides the fact I have to be in Korea for two weeks when I should be dealing with more important things like finding gainful employment and figuring out where I am going to live a few months from now-here or there-the news on TV
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I think the Aegis and Furuno radars have been explained to death on NHK this evening. Here is why: MINAMIBOSO, Chiba — A Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) destroyer collided with a fishing boat off the coast of Chiba early Tuesday, splitting the fishing boat in two and leaving a father
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It started innocently enough. A couple weeks back, we went out to a street sale. More correctly-yours truly was dragged from the warmth of his couch, TV, and coffee-to stop by the ATM and then serve as the financier for yet another of the S.O.’s junk antique shopping expeditions. Along
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