Okinawa governor approves relocation of US airbase within prefecture！

以下はRTの少し古い記事だが、現在につながる問題だね！辺野古が推進されていく現状は、仲井真知事が地雷を踏んだ形だ！老獪な政治家の境地とは何だろう？事大主義的に流されている。コメントにあるように象のUSに苛められている日本、その日本に利用されつくされる沖縄の構図が変わらずそこにあるようだ。日米一体化路線、米軍&自衛隊が共同戦線で大国中国に対峙の構図である。そして軍事要塞基地＝沖縄＝防波堤機能が強化されていく！←フェンスのない故郷は幻想のかなた！あるべき故郷を求める日々！←こんなはずではなかった現実！絶望＝希望、綺麗は汚い、汚いは綺麗、Fair is foul, Foul is fair.二律背反antinomyを生きざるを得ない命の川？

Okinawa governor approves relocation of US airbase within prefecture

Published time: December 27, 2013 03:29 
Edited time: December 27, 2013 07:10

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US military base Camp Schwab on the eastern coast of Okinawa (AFP Photo / Kazuhiro Nogi 

 

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Okinawa officials approved the long-anticipated relocation of the US Marines Corps’ Futenma Air Station on Friday, according to Japan's defense ministry. The move settles decades of often heated negotiations between Tokyo and Washington.

Local officials signed up to a plan that paves the way for the construction of a new American military base on a coastal landfill within Okinawa Prefecture, AFP reported.

The Okinawa population is angered at the decision, and reports emerged crowds were gathering to protest.怒

Though Okinawa Governor, Hirokazu Nakaima, was originally against a deal to keep the controversial base in his jurisdiction, a Wednesday meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proved pivotal. Abe reportedly pledged a healthy annual sum of cash into Okinawa’s economy until 2021.

The defense ministry’s Okinawa bureau confirmed the deal. "The office received the document at 10:50 am. It was approved," an official from the ministry's Okinawa office said, as quoted by AFP.

The deal could face legal challenges and protests based on the stiff public opposition to the airbase staying in Okinawa.

The estimated cost of the relocation is about $8.6 billion, and Japan will cover $3.1 billion of that sum.

Nakaima’s approval is a breakthrough, as the plan to shutter Futenma - which is currently located in a densely-populated area - has been on hold for the past 17 years.

The United States agreed in 2006 to move the base to the coast, but local opposition prevented the potential shift. Anti-base sentiment and concern about US military operations at Futenma has long been an emotionally charged issue in Okinawa.普天間県内移設反対！の声は大きい。

After the 25-minute meeting with Abe, Nakaima said, “I’m grateful for the surprisingly good proposals made by the prime minister.”←仲井真は安倍総理に感謝のことば！

Yet the Japan Daily Press reports that Nakaima was likely to support the reclamation project even before Abe’s offer, based, in part, on political calculations ahead of an important, upcoming mayoral election in Nago, Okinawa. The race is being seen as a referendum on the base relocation plan.

Nakaima is expected to hold a press conference in Okinawa on Friday to officially announce his decision.

Tokyo and Washington are negotiating multiple plans regarding the relocation, according to the Japan Daily Press. One is to allow Japanese authorities to enter US bases for environmental checks and other official purposes, which Tokyo believes will complement the existing Status of Forces Agreement. Another is to advance the return of land where Futenma is currently, which is now scheduled for 2022. In addition, Japan is suggesting that US exercises involving the controversial MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft occur in several locations - not just in Okinawa.

Japan hosts some 50,000 American soldiers and officers, particularly in Okinawa. Their presence is a constant source of tension with local populations due to crimes committed by the servicemen, disruptions caused by military flights and land use by the US military.

For instance, last October, a local woman was raped by the US military.

In 1995, three Americans kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl. The service members beat her, tied her up, and duct-taped her eyes and mouth while raping the child. The incident sparked mass protests against the US military presence.　そして、仲井真さんは、辺野古埋め立てを承認した！お金と引き換えに、島魂を売った行為かもしれないね。

 

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Enrique 28.12.2013 20:52

Thousands of U.S. troops will be relocated in Guam, a former Spanish colony annexed by the U.S. in 1898. 

Guam has been for centuries an strategical point, first for the Manila Galleon guaranteeing trade between the Viceroyalty of New Spain and China.

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Steven Severn 28.12.2013 11:42

 

R 27.12.2013 18:23

We also want the US military bases removed from Germany and whole Europe! We don't want the US military raping our girls and poisoning our water! Join the EFF (European Freedom Fighters)!ヨーロッパ自由戦士ですか。ドイツから撤退してほしい米軍基地！

  

If the Americans move out, another superpower will move in unless each Europe country pays the full price for its national defense. So you can say goodbye to all your social programs if that happens. 

Also, 1945, it wasnt the US Army who left a legacy of mass rapes in Europe. Look up the legacy of the army that came from the east. They held mass rapes in cities for up to 14 days.

Steven Severn 27.12.2013 12:29

Poor Japan.

Po or Japan? Maybe you better do some research and see what kind of behavior the Imperial Japanese army was up to in China during the 1930s. 

Considerin g how they treated the women and children of China, Honk Kong and Korea for almost a decade, they are lucky to get an occupation force as reasonable as the Americans. 

They would not be having such a good time right now if China or North Korea was the occupying power. Both of them are still very angry about the Japanese war crimes committed against their citizens.なるほど！中国や北朝鮮が日本を占領したら、もっと恐ろしいとーー。

When we Pakistanis be able to do this.

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fran7 27.12.2013 08:18

Japan like Israel is now nothing but a USA military establishment so USA can stick its nose into the business of places it has not right to be.
USA government are backers of Syrian cannibal rebels and an outmoded Saudi Arabian monarchy which constantly suppresses ordinary people and commits acts of violence both financial and physical against ordinary folk.
All this is done in the ridiculous claim of security of course.　セキュリティーの名目でなされるＵＳの軍事キャンペーン

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mko 27.12.2013 06:12

Now! Many Japanese protesters are entering the local office! They are fighting against the new US base plan.

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Matthew Day 27.12.2013 06:01

The parents and grandparents of todays Okinawans forfeited their and there offspring's vote on any matter of security. By embarking on a murderous war of aggression, and then getting their butts kicked by the allied forces, they were forced into "unconditional& quot; surrender. Until the American government officially sets Japan free from its end of war commitments, the U.S. can build bases wherever it pleases in Japan. No need to really ask permission.

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Anthony Lenin 27.12.2013 03:48

Yankee Imperialism must for the benefit of Humanity, and its survival, be destroyed once and for all.

 

Anthony Lenin 27.12.2013 03:33

Japan is a satalite of the United States and has been since the end of WW2. The result of the negotiations is of no surprise.日本はＷＷＩＩ以降ＵＳの衛星国家だからなんら不思議ではない。

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