One can easily list 50 well established universities with good international reputations, diverse faculty bases and solid scholarship.

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However, if you were good enough, you could keep up with that via multiple bases and multiple teams to tackle situations.

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Mr Kan had a further dash of good news on November 28th when the incumbent governor of Okinawa, an island in southern Japan packed with American military bases, won re-election.

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