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Japanese Bureaucrats Hide Decision to Move All US Marines out of Okinawa to Guam

February 1, 2010 by Paul

[Japanese original text at Tanaka News)

(tanakanews.com)]

Tanaka Sakai

From Japan Focus

Translation by William Steele

Introduction by Gavan McCormack

Kyoto Action against U.S. Military Expansion in Okinawa

February 1, 2010 by Paul

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Kyoto Action against U.S.

ピースアクション：US for Okinawa

February 1, 2010 by Paul

 

January 31, 2010 US for OKINAWA statement

Okinawan Message to President Obama: Withdraw the Marines

November 18, 2009 by Paul

by the  Study Group on Okinawan External Affairs

On Friday 13 November, US President Obama flew in to Tokyo. The unresolved issue of “replacing” Futenma US Marine Air Station has been removed from the talks agenda, because the two sides cannot agree on how to resolve it. Festering for more than 13 years, the issue has risen gradually to a head since the Hatoyama Government too office at the beginning of September calling for a redefinition of US-Japan relations.

Japan to use 610 billion yen for a bogus 'relocation' of U.S. Marines to Guam from Okinawa

May 27, 2009 by Paul

The Diet on May 13 approved an agreement that requires Japan, supposedly a sovereign nation, to pay the cost of constructing a foreign country's military base outside Japan as part of a plan to "relocate" a part of the U.S. Marine Corps to Guam from Okinawa.

The US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement and Okinawan Anger

November 12, 2008 by Paul

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