Japan's top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive government plan to build US military runways
Japan's top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive government plan to build US military runways
Okinawa serves an important purpose for the Japanese state, which is that it's the place where they shove all of the troops so that the average Japanese person can live their life without thinking too hard about how they're still an occupied country with a puppet government.
Death to America
Meh, if it wasn't for "America", they'd speak Japanese all over Korea, parts of China and Indonesia, a base in Okinawa doesn't sound too bad for an occupation following WW2.
80% of the Japanese military was being slowly routed in China while America was hopping between islands and building genocide bombs. The American conflict with Japan is better understood as the inevitable clash of two empires expanding into the same place, rather than some kind of rescue of the Koreans, half of whom are still under American occupation.
I think you mean if it wasn't for the Soviet Union and the people of the Korean and Chinese resistances
In what fantasy land are you living in? By 1941, Japan was locked in a stalemate and slowly getting whittled down by the sheer number of bodies China could throw at the problem. In 1944, Japan's Ichi-Go operation showcased the futility of Japanese offensives: despite Japanese strategic successes, China could fight an asymmetric guerilla war and stretch out supply lines even while the Nationalists and Communists were themselves stuck in an unsteady balance of power. By 1945, the USSR had an army large enough to rout any Japanese occupation in mainland Asia and technology that was simply superior to what was available to Japan.
Allied efforts to supply China over "The Hump" were costly and largely ineffective, delivering just 351 machine guns, 96 mountain cannon, 618 antitank rifles, 28 antitank guns, and 50 million rounds of rifle ammunition between May 1942 and September 1944 (Taylor 2009).
Did the US play a role in the Pacific Theater? Absolutely. Would the Japanese have won if the US hadn't gotten involved? I doubt it.
If it wasn't for America, the mainland areas would likely be called former soviet nations.
Aww is someone jealous?
It’s okay, you can play with your North Korea at home.
They also like going there for vacations.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Okinawa’s rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to approve it despite protests by locals who oppose the American troops’ presence.
It will move forward the suspended construction at a time Okinawa’s strategic role is seen increasingly important for the Japan-U.S. military alliance in the face of growing tensions with China.
“The ruling is extremely disappointing because we had expected a fair and neutral judgement based on respect for the local government autonomy,” Tamaki told a news conference.
The Japanese and U.S. governments initially agreed in 1996 to close the Futenma air station, a year after the rape of a schoolgirl by three U.S. military personnel led to a massive anti-base movement.
The Japanese government in recent years has increasingly stepped up its own defenses to deal with China’s growing assertiveness, triggering fear among Okinawan residents that they will be the first to be embroiled in a potential conflict.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno welcomed the ruling and said the government hopes to achieve the complete reversion to Japan of the Futenma airfield and relieve Okinawa of the burden of shouldering U.S. military bases while providing a thorough explanation to the local community.
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but how can the US sell its human killing weapons across the globe without a \dealership\ base ??
Lmao
You don’t understand history, we get it
the mass creation and distribution of human killing weapons will continue until youre all peaceful - the world police
Just so it's not lost on everyone, A) Okinawa was a sovereign country that Japan occupied and annexed, B) the Supreme Court of Japan is using structural power over Okinawa to forcibly maintain and advance the interests of the USA, who nuked it twice, on the island of Okinawa, C) the USA is continuing to impose itself on the Pacific region through imperialism and it so dominates Japan that Japan's highest court is oppressing its own colonial holdings in favor of the global hegemon.
A few points you missed.
Yes, the Rykuyu islands were a sovereign country... In the 16th century. It's been run by Japan - save for a brief period between 1945 and 1978 - ever since. There's a small and insignificant independence movement that pretty much everyone ignores. I remember them throwing bread rolls at our gate guards.
The US didn't nuke Okinawa. I don't think it was intentional, but your wording implied that it did.
Okinawans are split over the military issue. Some people want the US out. Others make tons of money off the Americans being there. It's not a clear cut situation as you seem to imply.
The US is responsible for Japan's defense ever since the end of WWII, just like it was for west Germany. Given that Japan didn't make many friends during their little adventure across east Asia, having the world's largest military protect them is a favorable arrangement for them.
It's been several generations since WWII. Japan is one of the US' closest allies. If they wanted to transform their self-defense force into a full-blown military and take over responsibility for their own defense, I'm sure they could do so. So far, no one has generated the political will to do that. Your buddy Kim isn't helping things by sending missiles over Japan.
And lastly, WWII wasn't a war of conquest for the US. Blame the US for interfering in Korea and Vietnam and the middle east all you like, but Japan was a different story. Calling the US' actions in Japan "Imperialism" destroys any credibility you may have otherwise had.
The U.S. declaring war on Japan after Pearl Harbor was not imperialism. But after the war, when the U.S. turned Japan into a vassal state and kept a ton of military bases throughout the Pacific (to supplement those from its initial phase of empire building), that is imperialism.
Uh, they literally made them a protectorate by denying them the ability to field a military. Then when Japan was outcompeting them economically the USA economically undermined them pretty openly and Japan couldn't do anything about it.
Japan is an imperial junior partner to the USA. They are a protectorate and vassal.
Free Ryukyu! Revolution of our time!
"Sure, it has popular opposition, but the capitalists like it, making it a divisive issue"
Imperialism is not the same thing as conquest, and US handling of the aftermath of WWII featured cartoonish levels of imperialism, though the starkest example is probably Korea.
That must have been a horrible experience for you.
Thank you for your service.
This part is ironic. The tankies will often argue that Japan shouldn't be expanding their military (and anything their military does they think is wrong), but also that the US shouldn't be involved. You don't get both. You can't just say a nation should have no way to defend itself, especially when you are defending Russia and China.
Just so it’s not lost on everyone, I can make shit up too:
The ghost of Carl Marx had crazy orgies with Stalin and Hitler and under aged boys of indeterminate ethnic origin. These geopolitical parties, as they were known, though they have nothing to do with Okinawa, explain much of the problems with Russian-Anglo-Italo crypto leftist socialists and general inferiority therein.
This is why they are continually ignored by all facets of superior civilized democratic capitalist society. Just in case my agenda was missed, I shall write the words “invisible hands of the free market.”