Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I watched a bit of the interpreted talk between the Japanese politician and the mucky-mucks at the hallowed halls a few days ago....The man's arrival was advertised big time on talk radio....he was going to address the tangantangan nation members at UOG. He supposedly had something important to say to the zooes as they sat at his feet listening to his very words about Okinawa, the Japanese Diet(not the kind you go on to gain or lose weight) and the 6 billion dollars that the Japanese Diet might 'lend'(I swear, that's what I heard translated) the Americans to help move the Marines from Okinawa to DUVA.
The dude said things like it's better for the military to interact with the people outside the gate rather than just stay inside the gate....wow, that's really big news....good for Lone Star and OutBack steak house....he was vague about the horrors of the Marines and Okinawa and mentioned that yes, they did buy trinkets that helps the economy somewhat(my interpretation of the interpretation) I even gathered that one of the reasons the Okinawans want the Marines to move is because the people want their property back.
The clowns seemed to want the words to come from the dude's mouth...words such as....tell the members of the Japanese Diet to tell the American Government to make sure that some of that 6 billion is used for infrastructure for outside the gate....but.....the man didn't respond.....seems the language barrier becomes a real hurdle when necessary....as well, someone said the no-no words and the translation really got lost....war reparation(s) went right over the dude's head as well as his English spokesperson....
What the dude said over and over and over, however......is that if the officials(he wasn't exact about which officials would be the ones to be the ones to do the task) wanted to make sure that some of the 6 billion dollars was to be spent outside the gate.....that the officials had to demand it be spent on whatever the officials wanted...the dude also sympathized that the clowns were clueless as to what's happening or going to happen with the coming move of some 8,000 Marines.
I'm sure that I'm naive and just didn't get the reason for the man's important meetings.....and that I misunderstood everything that I heard/watched on the 'local government' t.v. channel......but I sure thought that it sure was a strange thing for a Japanese politician to come to Guam to possibly instigate problems between the 'locals' and the military....especially since several elected officials already feel left out of the military planning meetings.
And I'm naive enough to wonder if the Japanese Diet, or any local state government in Japan would appreciate one of our elected officials to come to one of their towns to hold a 'town hall' like meeting, suggesting that their people demonstrate or demand from the government what they want.
I'm sure there's a very simple explanation to the man's visit.....but the island's already tense enough about the coming move that we don't need any help making the natives more restless.
Wakarimasu ka?
Iie, wakarimasen!