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Okinawans Facing a Year of Trial: the Okinawa-Japan-US Relationship and the East China Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Sakurai Kunitoshi  and
Gavan McCormack
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For a number of years, The Asia-Pacific Journal has paid attention to Okinawa as the point where major contradictions within the national, regional, and global system are sharpest, and to Okinawan civil society as the seed-bed of some of the most advanced democratic thinking in contemporary Asia, with great significance for the future of Japan, the region and the US-Japan relationship.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 9 , February 2013 , e4
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1 The 83 US bases and facilities in Japan sit on 309 square kilometres of land, of which 74 per cent, 228 square kilometres, is Okinawan (Japanese government figures).

2 The allocation to Okinawan prefecture in the 2013 budget was 300 billion yen, up 2 per cent from 293 billion in 2012.