U.S. Bases – Entertainment Visas – Baseball

RSS Podcast Feed – MP3 TOKYO – This week, trouble with relocating U.S. forces within Japan, organized crime and entertainers, and Japan gets bullied by its American big brother in baseball. With the imminent downsizing and reorganizing of U.S. forces here, no one wants soldiers in their backyard. But that’s the dilemma facing residents of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Meanwhile, organized crime has long been linked to “entertainment” visas, so why is Tokyo taking a stand only now? And finally, Japan gets short-changed with a bad call at the World Baseball Classic in California.