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The Futenma Base and the U.S.-Japan Controversy: an Okinawan perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yoshio Shimoji
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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the conclusion of the revised Japan-U.S. Mutual Security Treaty (Ampo). The original treaty was signed on September 8, 1951, the same day the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. One of its provisions stipulated that Japan must guarantee the U.S. the same stable use of military bases as it did under the occupation. Without accepting that requirement, Japan could never have won its independence.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 18 , May 2010 , e5
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