Japan’s land minister has sued Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki in an effort to force the construction of a landfill needed to relocate a US base on the island, a project the majority of Okinawans oppose.
The aim of the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is to give itself the power to approve the construction without Tamaki giving the green light. The construction is part of a plan to relocate US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan, Okinawa, to Henoko, a coastal area of the island.
Okinawa has hosted the majority of US military bases in Japan since the end of World War II, a burden the residents of the prefecture are not happy about. The residents have long opposed the plan to move Futenma to another location within Okinawa.
In a 2019 referendum, 72% of voters opposed the construction of the landfill that’s needed to move Futenma to Henoko. A poll in 2022 found that 68% of Okinawans feel their opinions on US bases in their prefecture are being ignored.
Japan’s supreme court gave the central government the ability to begin the landfill work on Henoko in 2018. But when construction started, soft ground was discovered, which required a new construction plan that Tamaki has refused to approve.
According to a monument at the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, 149,584 civilians were killed during the Battle of Okinawa between US and Japanese Imperial forces in 1945. The US ended its formal occupation of Okinawa in 1972, but the population has continued to oppose the US military presence.
Reluctant population does not want to be used as proxy stooges in the US war on China. Korea is also skittish about fighting itself.
The US thought Russia was weak and is sacrificing Ukrainians. Now the Pentagon wants to sacrifice Asians and draft Americans, including young women in good physical condition. All this in order to keep the budget growing.
The same is true for European NATO member states, the people do not want to be cannon fodder for American interests. Their current governments are American neocon’s hand puppets. That can not end well.
they don’t seem to oppose being under our nuclear umbrella with Dim wit Jun Un right across the water terroirizing the planet. Where’s your article on him?
They are in no position to refuse to be under the US nuclear umbrella, no more than Germany. Every nuclear missile is a target in Germany as well as in Japan. The Germans opposed the Pershing missiles, they had to accept them, they are not vassals by choice.
And why would they want to refuse? To get annihilated? You sympathizers don’t seem to get who’s the bad guys here. Well, all of us, but most importantly. Who was busy investing in offensive first strike missile technology at a time of global peace, and historic standards of living as a healthy middle class thrived in Europe, Asia, and the US? China and Russia. Who created a new arms race with deadly nuclear missiles by developing hypersonic technology? Russia and China. What did the US do in response to this advantage that changed the balance of global nuclear power? Moved missiles closer to Moscow in Poland. What did Putin do in response? Invade a sovereign nation that gave up it’s nuclear arsenal to Russia in the 1990’s to become an independent state, and threaten them with nuclear weapons. What has China done with it’s new nuclear power? Bully Taiwan, bully Phillipines and try to claim large swarths of territory in the Indian Ocean that’s not theirs to claim, as they release maps of parts of China that are in China.
So got take your horsebleep propaganda elsewhere, Nancy.
You need lessons in recent history beginning in 1992 .
Sounds like YOU are the one needing some lessons after the one you just got. 🤷🏽♂️
Boom!!! well stated… but shhh, that’s a taboo discussion here. It’s not anti US.
You seem to be against free speech in favor of wars.
Russians honor their contracts, the USA Americans do not.
Russians did not weaponize energy, US President Biden did.
Putin did not sabotage the pipeline, Biden did.
Putin does not sanction countries, businesses and individuals, friend or foe,
Biden does.
Putin does not stab allies in the back, Biden does.
The USA destroys their allies economies and throws them under the bus, as they are doing to Ukraine now and they will do to the European continent when they are done with Ukraine. In short, Americans can’t be trusted, they are deceptive.
Next on their list is Taiwan and China.
Ok, so where does this end? The complete annihilation of civilization? We need to rebuild an alliance, that allows each of us to operate with autonomy and live in peace. I don’t blame one of them, I blame all of them, for being greedy, blood thirsty, reckless and conducing outrageous, salacious, egregious, preposterous deeds on humanity.
Alliances, real alliances, are build on trust, the Americans can’t be trusted, they stab allies in the back and throw them under the bus to get what they want.
Ukraine is experiencing the alliance treatment, so are the European NATO partners. By destroying the German economy the Americans are destroying the EU, you know the f*** the Nuland EU. France and Australia had a contract to build submarines, Biden broke it, it is now an UK/AUST deal. Biden is annihilating the EU and NATO and if he gets his war with China he may get his WW III WHICH COULD BE THE END OF CIVILIZATION.
It sounds crazy, but face it, we have a demented president and deranged Russophobe neocons occupying the WH asylum, then we have the other mad house, it is called congress. We are in deep trouble.
Biden is a bully, he is not liked among other heads of state.
The US invades nations all the time, get off your high horse and your double standard, use your brain if you have one.
We haven’t invaded a nation since Iraq. We haven’t invaded Ukraine. We haven’t invaded Taiwan. We haven’t invaded the Phillipines. You are support leaders that are going to lead to the end of human life as we know it on earth if you don’t get them out of power while we’re all alive. I don’t like Biden. I do blame him for getting us into this mess in Ukraine, but I don’t equate his actions to Putin or Xi’s.
We don’t need to invade when we fix elections, or overthrow democratically elected governments, to get our way and make that nation buckle under.
I recall Libya, but bombing the hell out of a nation is not an invasion, American troops are occupying the oil reserves in Syria, not an invasion either, illegal sanctions, starving children to death 500 000 in Iraq alone are not invasions either. Iraq and Afghanistan were not invasions, right? The US is only funding, arming and training the Ukrainians to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian standing. the Us is not fighting Russia, they are totally NEUTRAL.
But, is it not strange, before the conflict, Dec. 2021 Putin approached the USA to negotiate a status of NEUTRALITY for Ukraine not Zelensky which Biden turned down and as far as I know without consulting the Ukrainians. BIDEN prevented every single instance of diplomatic negotiations to end the slaughter, every time, it never failed. It is BIDEN’s WAR not Putin’s war.
Biden and his cabal believe they are omnipotent, he can do a regime change in Moscow, on a popular president of a nuclear power. This is how Delusion of Grandeur looks like.
Terrorizing the planet ? , only one country terrorizing the planet and that is America , if you can`t see that fact you need help.
Tell that to a Japanese.
No, truly. Pick one off the street and tell him that.
Tell that to an Iraqi, or Syrian, or Libyan, or Serbian
Without the US, North Korea would not be a threat to Japan. The only reason North Korea could threaten Japan is because of all of our military forces there, threatening North Korea.
There are 34,000 Marines stationed on Okinawa. Drunk Marines, whore housess Okinawa citizens cannot prosecute Marines for crimes. Just a lovely place.
Sounds like Donbas with Russia presence.
The US is in Okinawa and other bases throughout the country at the request of the Japanese Government just like Assad wants the Russians in Syria. It’s called security cooperation. If Japan decides they dont want them there, the US will pull out.
BTW, it is truly a lovely place. Sounds like you’ve never been there. Just repeating what you’ve heard from your network.
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If Japan decides they dont want them there, the US will pull out”? Nope. Japan is a vassal state and has been since 1945. Japan ruined its economy in 1985 (The Plaza Accord) under pressure from the US and is ruining its economy again.. under US pressure. The US plans to use Japan like it is using Ukraine in a proxy war with China.
And I like how makes this article about Russia when it’s about Japan and Okinawa.
LOL. Japan competes with Germany for the title of best vassal state ever! But Germany needs to try harder. Japan is ahead by two nuked civilian cities on their ledger. I would have given them the award, but I’m no expert. Germany is a strong competitor. On the other hand, Japan knows exactly how to pull a defeat from the jaws of defeat. (Sarcasm)
South Korea closing in on those two pretty fast.
Wait!? The Japanese are using “environmental logic” to stop a US base? Do they think we care about the environment? LOLOLOL. Where did they get that idea? Is it because we used two nuclear bombs on them instead of using just one? (Sarcasm)
https://youtu.be/1SIAeEGQc-g?t=26
US bases are still the bases of the occupier, in Japan as in Germany. The nations are still not sovereign nations, they could cover the facts during better times. Germany has Ramstein AB and more.
Here`s a idea kick the yanks out , ho wait a minute they can`t as Japan is a occupied country .
Question: Is Japan considered a “Democracy”, even though it’s US occupied?
The US, especially Biden, repeatedly equates elections with democracy but of course democracy is much more than that. In the US we elect people who then serve their chief funders, not the electors.
Window dressing – then they do what they want once in office.
Beg pardon, do what they’re told.
Is that still part of the “democracy” we gave Okinawa?
You wonder why Shinzo Abe was bumped off by the “lone gunman.”
…from the web
It is hard to describe the feelings one has when first seeing the coral of Ōura Bay. Looking down from the railing of a boat, they are covered by a turquoise veil of shimmering waves, blurring the different species into one. It is beautiful, but it makes it difficult to envision what it really looks like down there. To get a real understanding you need to jump into those turquoise waters. So let’s jump in and dive down!
. . .For many Okinawans — including the current Prefectural Government — the construction of the extended Marine Base at Henoko is intolerable, not just because it destroys the precious and unique marine life of Ōura Bay but also because the new base would imprint the American military presence onto Okinawa for decades to come. A finished base in Henoko would also mean that large military vessels could enter the deep waters of the bay.
. . .To mitigate the adverse effects of the landfill project in Ōura Bay the Japanese government proposes to move roughly 40,000 coral colonies, replanting them in areas outside of the construction site. When transplanting coral, smaller fragments are taken from the colony and moved to a different place, where they are attached to rocks with cages, wires and hooks. If the conditions are right, the relocated coral can thrive again.. . .here
https://apjjf.org/data/PalzPicture1.jpg