Ever since the end of America's Vietnam catastrophe, experts on both sides of the Pacific have sounded warnings about anachronistic, wasteful, and dangerously misguided U.S. military policies, seemingly perpetuated by inertia, in East Asia. Yet their recommendations are ignored and new policy initiatives thwarted. As a candidate for president in early 1975, Jimmy Carter … [Read more...] about Trump’s Threat to Charge Japan More for U.S. Forces: Taoka Shunji says “Let them leave.” (Japan Focus)
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The silencing of an anti-U.S. base protester in Okinawa
When three antiwar activists were detained by the Tokyo police for 75 days in 2004, the Nobel Prize-winning international rights group, Amnesty International, formally declared them to be “prisoners of conscience,” thus tarring Japan’s reputation with a brush that is ordinarily reserved for the world’s most oppressive regimes.A similar story is playing out in Okinawa as I … [Read more...] about The silencing of an anti-U.S. base protester in Okinawa
Okinawa Base Issue (compiled stories)
Nago City Assembly Statement: Demands halt of Jp govt drilling at the coral & dugong reef in the Sea of Henoko; says forced drilling "a denial of democracy and tramples on the dignity of the people of Nago and Okinawa, and absolutely cannot be … [Read more...] about Okinawa Base Issue (compiled stories)