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Tens of thousands protest in Okinawa against Osprey deployment
Okinawa :: Japan | 9 months ago
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Tens of thousands of people gathered for a rally in Okinawa on Sunday to protest against the planned deployment of U.S. Ospreys in the prefecture in the face of a series of problems involving the tilt-rotor military aircraft. "It cannot be considered
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Unknown costs of U.S. military
Okinawa :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Nothing remained after the so-called "iron typhoon" in Okinawa. Taking advantage of this nothingness, the U.S. occupation forces in postwar Okinawa freely encroached upon private land towns, villages, farmland, schoolyards and even cemeteries to
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Change of plans on Okinawa base move
Tōkyō :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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The United States and Japan are talking about moving U.S. Marines from Okinawa before relocating an air base on the island, sources told The Yomiuri Shimbun. The newspaper said Sunday the idea was proposed as representatives of the two countries
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Setting Futenma's record straight
Okinawa :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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There is no record of any kind of systematic brutalization of the Okinawan people by U.S. forces in World War II. On the contrary, it was the Imperial Japanese Army that forced Okinawans to fight U.S. forces, and encouraged them to commit suicide
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Cables show inflexibility of both US and Okinawa
Okinawa :: Japan | almost 2 years ago
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Plans for a Marine relocation from Okinawa to Guam have popped up in the cables released by Wikileaks several times. Here are some of the local headlines made by these cables: December 2010: Cables from the Wellington embassy show how U.S. officials
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Embassy: Kan had no Okinawa solutions
Okinawa :: Japan | almost 2 years ago
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Before he became prime minister of Japan, Naoto Kan privately told U.S. diplomats that he had no good ideas on how to resolve the Futenma Air Station controversy in Okinawa, which has become a significant buildup hurdle...Embassy in Tokyo, Kan said
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Stalemate lingers over Futenma
Okinawa :: Japan | 2 years ago
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While military buildup gears churn on Guam, the Okinawa part of the U.S. military realignment plans has reached a stalemate over the Futenma Air Station controversy. Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa met with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima
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Politics › Ex-Obama aide sees Futenma relocation plan as unfeasible: Japan lawmaker
Nago :: Japan | 2 years ago
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Former National Security Adviser James Johns has questioned the feasibility of the plan for relocating a U.S. Marine base within Okinawa Prefecture, a ruling Japanese lawmaker said Friday. Johns, who held the post until last November under President
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Politics › Okinawa governor urges U.S. senator to move Futenma elsewhere in Japan
Naha :: Japan | 2 years ago
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Marine air base on the island prefecture to be relocated to another part of Japan in a meeting with the visiting chairman of the U.S...Referring to an agreement the two countries reached in May 2010 to move the Futenma Air Station to a coastal area
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Politics › Ginowan mayor calls for early closing of Futenma base
Nago :: Japan | 2 years ago
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The mayor of Ginowan, which hosts the U.S. military's Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture, called Tuesday for the early closing of the Marine Corps airfield, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of a Japan-U.S. agreement to return the land
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