I know my comment won't answer your question regarding books, but you or anyone else reading this can message me any time to chat or ask questions about Japanese. I'm a professional translator in Okinawa.
I appreciate your honesty. People make it sound so easy to do the right thing but when you're in a group like the military where conformity is pretty much a matter of life and death, it's like a very hard decision to make.
If enough people protest, maybe those who can't afford to protest can at least legitimately say "sorry, there's a protest in my neighbourhood and I can't get to work."
Where have you heard this? We have marines constantly getting caught drinking and driving, breaking and entering, smuggling drugs, and even raping women here in Okinawa. I get called by the prosecutor's office almost on a weekly basis to interpret for these guys.
Yeah what is that called when a product name becomes a common noun? Nintendo fought this so that "Nintendo" didn't become synonymous with "videogame console."
I threw out my back the other day, but that didn't stop me from helping an old lady carry her groceries to her home a few blocks down.