On 23 December last year, the Japanese Government announced in the event of a “Taiwan Contingency” the US military would set up a string of attack bases in the “southwest islands” of Japan with the help of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
“Even at a base level, there’s a refusal of democracy to Okinawans here organizing.” #WorldBEYONDWar
Two hundred residents of Aichi Prefecture, where I live, have just scored a significant victory for peace and justice.
A petition to President Joe Biden was read aloud in English and Japanese at the White House and at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August 21, 2021, by David Swanson and Hideko Otake.
On June 23, there was an Okinawa Memorial Day online Zoom event. Here you can watch all the collected videos with English/Japanese subtitles entirely on the YOUTUBE channel, “Stand With Okinawa NY” one by one.
By Tomomi Tomita, Japan Times, March 18, 2021 Naha – In a booklet by an Okinawan women’s civic group documenting sex crimes by U.S. soldiers
From Peace for Okinawa Coalition, September 10, 2020 Geneva, Switzerland – A group of Okinawans and Hawaiians will be speaking at the United Nations Human Rights
Recent outbreaks of the novel coronavirus at U.S. military bases in Okinawa have cast renewed light on what many consider to be extraterritorial rights enjoyed by American servicemen …
