Monday, March 23, 2015
We might have to bomb them back to the Stone Age again
The Japanese, through their Okinawan subsidiary are making trouble for our military, again.First they don't like an airbase in the middle of a populated area, which they built up after we blasted them into the Stone Age seventy years ago. So we agree to move and they don't like that either.
A clash between Japan's central government and Okinawa, host to the bulk of U.S. troops in Japan, deepened on Monday when the southern island's governor ordered a halt to underwater work at the site of a planned relocation of a U.S. Marine base.You would almost think they don't want to be part of our Exceptional Empire.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government and Okinawa have been on a collision course since anti-base conservative Takeshi Onaga was elected governor last November and ruling party candidates were trounced in a December general election.
Onaga told a news conference that he was ordering local defense ministry officials to halt the underwater survey work, which the prefecture fears is harming local coral reefs, a prefecture official said.
If those activities are not stopped within a week, Onaga may rescind approval for drilling operations given by his predecessor in December 2012, he said...
The United States and Japan agreed in 1996 to close the Futenma Marines air base, located in a populous part of the island. But plans for a replacement stalled in the face of opposition from residents, many of whom associate the bases with noise, pollution and crime and resent bearing what they see as an unfair burden for the U.S.-Japan security alliance.
Okinawa, which was not returned to Japanese sovereignty until 27 years after Tokyo's defeat in World War Two, still hosts nearly 75 percent of the U.S. military presence in Japan, accounting for 18 percent of its land area.
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