Leo Palace Golf Resort

Ben looking for a broken tee while eyeing the approach into the green on #2, Palmer course.
Bill taking some practice swings with the Leo Palace resort in the background.
The dark area on the hills is a wildfire that almost hit the course during the dry season, but Leo Palace soaked the course so that it wouldn't burn.
Kevin on the tee box. The ocean in the distance.

Ten Days in Tokyo - April 2009

Ten Days in Tokyo - April 2009

Cherry blossoms in front of the Kanto Lodge on Yokota Air Base, where I stayed for 7 days during the general court martial I litigated up there. It was third visit to Yokota AB. I'll probably be back. I played the par 3 course on base, and didn't get a chance to play Tama Hills, about an hour away.
The Meiji Shrine in Shibuya, Tokyo. Dedicated to the Great Imperor Meiji. Destroyed in the fires that burnt Tokyo to the ground during our bombing of Tokyo in 1945 and subsequently rebuilt. Hillary Clinton visited the shrine two months before I did in her first visit abroad as Secretary of State.
The torii leading to the Meiji Shrine.
Some sort of political rally of cultural rally with singing and political speeches. It was quite a vibrant weekend all over Tokyo with everyone out to celebrate the coming of spring and the cherry blossoms. I picked a good week to be here. I spend the day seeing as much as I could of the city with Maj Andrew Kalavanos, my senior counsel on the case.
A zero in the museum at the Yasukuni Shrine. The museum is a revisionist defense of Japanese expansion between 1890 and 1945. It's amazing the perspective put forth by this museum at the most important of all Japanese shrines. I would recommend visiting.

Ten Days in Tokyo - April 2009

Cherry blossoms through the train window. Tokyo has the most expansive and impressive train and subway system I have ever seen bar none. I've never seen a train not on time or early and they seem to run continuously all the time, everywhere.
A reflective garden at the Yasukuni Jinja shrine.
Everyone outdoors on Saturday during cherry blossom festival season. Had a great meal here that I had no idea what I was eating.

The Yasukuni Jinja war shrine that memorializes the 2.5 million Japanese war dead since 1869 when it was built, including all the war criminals interred here from World War II. It's the Japanese version of Arlington Cemetery.

Ten Days in Tokyo - April 2009

One of the final days of cherry blossoms as they start to fall off the trees after their two week life.
The snow covered cone of Mt Fuji.
Mt Fuji 50 miles in the distant looming up over the Kanto plain. This is from the golf course at Atsugi Naval Air Station that I played three straight days in a tournament.
A green on the golf course at Camp Zama, the major Army post in the foothills outside Tokyo.
The "two-way" street in front of Bill and Carol's house in Yamato.