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Oliver Stone on Okinawa - The Untold Story

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jon Mitchell
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On August 13, a dozen anti-base demonstrators scuffled with police outside the gates of Futenma Air Station in Ginowan City, Okinawa, as U.S. marines watched from behind the fence cracking jokes and laughing. Such scenes occur daily on Okinawa - saddled with roughly 70% of U.S. bases in Japan - and are usually ignored by the national media. But on this day, Tokyo TV stations had dispatched so many reporters they outnumbered the protesters.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 35 , September 2013 , e1
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1 For more on how the Japanese mainland media neglect and discriminate against Okinawa see Jon Mitchell, “What happens in Okinawa…” FCCJ Number 1 Shimbun, July 2013. Available here.

2 Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2012. Foreword.

3 For example, see here.

4 For an in-depth exploration of the Battle of Okinawa, see Gavan McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, 2012. Chapter 2.

5 Miyume Tanji, Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa, Routledge, London, 2006. 48 - 51.

6 For a discussion of Okinawa pacifism - specifically related to the northern Yambaru area of the island - see here.

7 For an account of the march of Okinawan leaders on Tokyo - and the fascist reception they received - see here.

8 Details of the Okinawa International University helicopter crash are available here.

9 “U.S. chopper crashes in Okinawa; no residents injured,” The Japan Times, August 5, 2013. Available here.

10 For an exploration of the debates surrounding previous Nago Mayoral elections see McCormack and Norimatsu, 144-149.

11 For example see Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting and Satoko Norimatsu, “Assault on the Sea: A 50-Year U.S. Plan to Build a Military Port on Oura Bay, Okinawa,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 27-1-10, July 5, 2010. Available here.

12 To watch Oliver Stone's full talk go here.