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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jon Mitchell
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On 13 August 2004, a U.S. Marine Corps transport helicopter crashed onto the campus of Okinawa International University, Ginowan City, injuring the three service members on board and sparking a large fire. Although the accident occurred on civilian soil, U.S. forces cordoned off the scene and blocked access to Japanese police investigators; according to some reports the only local representatives allowed through the blockade were delivery drivers bringing pizzas to the American MPs. That night, the national Japanese TV news networks either failed to cover the crash or afforded it scant attention.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 35 , September 2013 , e2
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1 For example, see James Brooke, “A Crash, and the Scent of Pizzatocracy, Anger Okinawa”, New York Times, September 13, 2004; Miyume Tanji, “Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa,” Routledge, New York, 2006.

2 For a partial list of U.S. military accidents, see for example this link from “Close The Base” here.

3 See Jon Mitchell, “Okinawa - The Pentagon's Toxic Junk Heap of the Pacific,” The Asia- Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 47, No. 6, November 25, 2013. Available here.

4 “2012 survey reveals that 74 percent of Okinawan people view the concentration of U.S. military bases in Okinawa as discrimination,” Ryukyu Shimpo, January 29, 2014. Available here.

5 For example, see Gavan McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu, “Resistant Islands - Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States,” Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2012. Pp. 137~158.

6 “Women religious plan coordinated protests over American forces in Okinawa,” UCA News, July 3, 2014. Available here.

7 McCormack and Norimatsu, p.4.

8 For example, see Ibid., p.21.

9 See Gavan McCormack, “The Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy in Japan - Nago City, Okinawa,” Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 4, No. 3, January 27, 2014. Available here. For the latest opinion poll on opposition to the Henoko plan, see here.

10 For an exploration of the faux justifications of the Pentagon's plans for Asia see Stephen Harner, “The NYTimes’ ‘China Threat’ Myth, The ‘Pivot To Asia,’ And Obama's Foreign Policy Legacy,” Forbes, June 22, 2014. Available here.

11 See for example Kikuno Yumiko and Norimatsu Satoko, “Henoko, Okinawa: Inside the Sit-In,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 8-1-10, February 22, 2010. Available here.

12 For more on Mao Ishikawa, see Jon Mitchell, “Okinawa shutterbug captures varied reactions to Hinomaru”, Japan Times, November 19, 2011.

13 See Hideki Yoshikawa, “Urgent Situation at Okinawa's Henoko and Oura Bay: Base Construction Started on Camp Schwab,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, July 8, 2014. Available here.

14 For an account of the latest lawsuit see this July 31 article by Earthjustice.

15 Yoshikawa, 2014.

16 McCormack and Norimatsu, pp.42-43.

17 Jon Mitchell, “Beggars’ Belief: The Farmers’ Resistance Movement on Iejima Island, Okinawa,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 23-2-10, June 7th, 2010. Available here.

18 Jon Mitchell, “ ‘Seconds Away From Midnight’: U.S. Nuclear Missile Pioneers on Okinawa Break Fifty Year Silence on a Hidden Nuclear Crisis of 1962,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 30, No. 1, July 23, 2012. Available here.

19 For example, see “Memorial held for 55th anniversary of U.S. military jet crash into Miyamori Elementary School”, Ryukyu Shimpo, June 30, 2014. Available in English here.

20 Jon Mitchell, “Rumble in the Jungle”, Japan Times, August 19, 2012. Available here.