{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Senior U.S. Diplomat Creates Uproar by Calling People of Okinawa \u201cLazy\u201d","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/www.tv.bamyanpress.com\/article59637.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/www.tv.bamyanpress.com\/article59637.html'\u003ESenior U.S. Diplomat Creates Uproar by Calling People of Okinawa \u201cLazy\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELast week it was revealed that Kevin Maher, the U.S. State Department\u2019s Director of Japanese Affairs, had given a lecture in December 2010, at The American University in Washington, D.C.  He reportedly told his students that the people of Okinawa were \u201ctoo lazy\u201d to grow their own vegetables and resorted to \u201cmanipulation\u201d and \u201cextortion.\u201d  The comments, first reported by the Kyodo News, created a diplomatic firestorm in Japan where they were universally denounced.  Apologies were quickly (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}