Reader Mail May 30, 2020

Toward a cozy, comfortable society

The May 16 article “Understanding the need to shame someone on social media” was an interesting topic for me. I understand that some netizens called the “self-restraint police” feel stressed and irritated with confined daily life during the COVID-19 crisis. It is natural that their ...

Reader Mail May 30, 2020

Not everyone welcomes U.S. Marines

When Kuni Miyake claims "Japan wholeheartedly welcomes the Marines back” in his May 19 opinion piece “A welcome move by the U.S. Marines," he must have been excluding Okinawa. About 20,000, or 80 percent, of the 24,000 Marines in all of Japan remain in this ...