Nago Mayor Inamine’s Concise Guide to What’s Wrong with the Planned Marine Air Base なにが問題なのか 名護市稲嶺市長による簡潔でわかりやすい海兵隊基地建設の問題点

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December 31, 2012

Nago Mayor Inamine’s Concise Guide to What’s Wrong with the Planned Marine Air Base なにが問題なのか 名護市稲嶺市長による簡潔でわかりやすい海兵隊基地建設の問題点
Nago Mayor Inamine’s Concise Guide to What’s Wrong with the Planned Marine Air Base なにが問題なのか 名護市稲嶺市長による簡潔でわかりやすい海兵隊基地建設の問題点

Volume 10 | Issue 54 | Number 197

Article ID 4811

Between 2012 and 2014 we posted a number of articles on contemporary affairs without giving them volume and issue numbers or dates. Often the date can be determined from internal evidence in the article, but sometimes not. We have decided retrospectively to list all of them as Volume 10, Issue 54 with a date of 2012 with the understanding that all were published between 2012 and 2014. 

 

Introduction by Steve Rabson

 

Nago Mayor Inamine Susumu has visited the United States twice recently to meet with government officials and hold press conferences to convey overwhelming opposition in Okinawa to the construction of a U.S. Marine air base in his city: as shown in local referenda, elections for a new governor and on-site protests. Like former Governor Ota Masahide who visited the U.S. in the 1990s, Inamine presented hand-outs and visuals documenting the disproportionate burden of U.S. military bases borne by Okinawa residents. Now Mayor Inamine’s office has prepared a thorough and easily-accessed presentation in English and Japanese on the history and scope of the U.S. military presence in Nago and the devastating impact the proposed air base would have on residents and the environment. It provides the essential facts to inform anyone with an interest in this issue at the center of Japan-Okinawa-US relations.

 

 

Pamphlet Cover

 

Page 2-3 – Henoko Oura Bay, Gifts from Nature

 

Page 4-5 – Construction Project of Futenma Replacement Facility (in Henoko)

 

Page 6-7 – The Current Situation of Futenma Air Station and the Construction Project of Futenma Replacement Facility

 

Page 8-9 – US Military Bases and Facilities on Okinawa and Its Vacinity, Air Spaces / Water Areas Used for US Forces Training in Japan

 

Page 10-11 – Main Incidents and Accidents Related to the US Military Bases on Okinawa, Background on the Relocation Issue of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma

 

Additional news from Nago city is available here.

 

A Japanese version and additional coverage is available here.

 

 

Asia-Pacific Journal articles on related themes:

 

Hideki Yoshikawa, Urgent Situation at Okinawa’s Henoko and Oura Bay

 

Jon Mitchell, Nuchi Du Takara – Okinawan Resistance and the Battle for Henoko Bay

 

Gavan McCormack and Urashima Etsuko, Okinawa’s “Darkest Year”

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