And Futenma is never going to be given up. It’s too valuable to the Marine Corps. Too strategic of a placement.

Also, quit calling us soldiers. We’re Marines!

But yes the local places suffered a lot from the lack of americans off base.

And yeah, the fact that they used darake doesn’t help.

for reference:

だらけ
〘接尾〙名詞に付く。
１
それのために汚れたり、それが一面に広がったりしているさまを表す。「血—」「どろ—」
２
それがたくさんあるという意を表す。「傷—」「間違い—」「借金—」
☞　まみれ•みどろ

And I suppose you refuse to eat any ramen or spaghetti because it’s an inferior plagiarism of egg noodle or whatever it was when it was invented in China

Likewise, it’s pretty shortsighted to think that people in India were the first ones to ever think of putting meat together with spices, and that every other dish in the world that can be considered a “curry” is derivative of an Indian recipe. I’d be interested in seeing your report of specific individuals or trends in history (movement of religion, etc) that helped spread Indian curry throughout the world, and how every other curry recipe can be traced back to India.

It is of course true that in the modern vernacular, the word “curry” is associated with Indian cuisine — most likely because of spices that were only available in India which helped popularize the dish(es), and thus adoption of the Tamil word “kari” to identify the cuisine.

Also, thinking that your opinion is right and therefore the only one that matters is childish, and vocalizing it is an example of what we call “asshattery”.

Have a good day, sir!

The problem isn’t reporting on the interesting and unusual fact that the top CoCoIchiban in Japan is frequented mostly by American soldiers, but rather that the report finds the most suitable noun to describe that very particular demographic is “foreigner”.

Actually, they said “foreign customers”, but whatever. That is what they are, foreigners.

Non-issue, let’s move on.

In a way, it reminds me of my attitude towards Japanese pizza …

I was told of the following by multiple people and you can decide for yourself:

1) some Nikkei acquaintances, despite being born in the US, when they spoke to ‘real Americans’ they are talked in a Charlie Chan or the David Carridane/Kung Fu accented English;
2) some Hispanic acquaintances, despite being US citizens, then they spoke to ‘real Americans’, they are talked in a Spanish accented, gramatically off English;
3) when some of my acquaintances spoke to ‘real Americans’, they were told, they spoke ‘good English’, despite being US citizens and some being born in the US.

The above situations do happen quite often and did the guy who made the claim acknowledged they happen or did he admit that they were wrong? NO.

Before he makes his critique, he needs to a little more homework
before making things sound as they were racists and it only happens in Japan.

I will agree that it is inevitable if people though that it was insensitive, but at the same time, it was explaining the reason why it is the most popular in Japan. The news reporting was insensitive, but people who spoke to my acquaintances were insensitive as well.

I will hae to agree that, for me that’s way too much fukujinzuke. You are killing the taste of the kare raisu.

If you are gonna put that much fukujinzuke, you might as well order a plateful of fukujinzuke and eat that instead.

The problem isn’t reporting on the interesting and unusual fact that the top CoCoIchiban in Japan is frequented mostly by American soldiers, but rather that the report finds the most suitable noun to describe that very particular demographic is “foreigner”.

People are naturally curious about ‘unusual’ or what we would deem ‘unusual’ things in life. No need to find racism or xenophobism in everything.

That is all.

Imagine a news program about a Sizzler in South Carolina starting off “Hold the boat! There’s something very weird about this restaurant! It’s crawling with Orientals!” And after identifying them as the employees of the local Fujifilm plant, all from Japan, saying, “Wow, those Orientals sure have a weird way of visiting a salad bar!”

Sorry, I could not help thinking this way, hehehe

BTW this is my favorite YouTube video
about CoCo curry in Okinawa and the US military men.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ0G2lrmXB4

It had to be done

My guess is that Americans don’t eat out at Japanese restaurants often (as there are American places on the bases that are much cheaper) and they don’t skimp on the occasions when they do eat at a Japanese place. It would essentially be a case where you’re doing something special so you get exactly what you want. Japanese people, on the other hand, see it as a pretty mundane experience and are likely more conservative with what they spend.

Personally, I love the pickles (tsukemono) as well. I like to mix them into the curry for a different taste. I don’t tend to need more than you are given in the bento boxes they give you for takeout, but I can see people wanting more.