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Selling the Henoko Base and the Future of Okinawa: Propaganda, Government Plans and ‘Development’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Daniel Broudy  and
Maki Sunagawa
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In recent years in Okinawa, local citizens have been divided over the issue of Henoko as an appropriate location for a particular kind of development. The United States military has, since the mid-1960s, been mapping out designs for a comprehensive facility for the U.S. Marine Corps at Henoko in Northern Okinawa. According to archived documents uncovered by Makishi Yoshikazu (真喜志好一), the proposed military development of this region of the main island has been debated for decades and, like a vampire, time and again keeps returning from a long sleep to make its presence felt in public discourse.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 54 , December 2012 , e186
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Footnotes

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.' As footnote

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For further details, please visit: http://www.ryukyu.ne.jp/~maxi/

Hideki Yoshikawa, “An Appeal from Okinawa to the US Congress: Futenma Marine Base Relocation and its Environmental Impact: U.S. Responsibility,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 39, No. 4, September 29, 2014

According to a complaint lodged in United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, “This plan would destroy the most important remaining habitat of the Okinawa dugong, a genetically isolated and unique population of dugong (a marine mammal) and a protected cultural property under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)” (2014 p. 2).

Yoshikawa, op. cit.

For further details, please visit: http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/96_abe/actions/2013 12/25mendan.html

Herbert Schiller “US as global overlord: Dumbing down, American-style” Le Monde Diplomatique, August 1999.

Schiller, Ibid.