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Demanding Fukki. Both in Tokyo and the Okinawan capital of Naha, Okinawans held demonstrations too, but of a far more purposeful and peaceful nature. In Naha, about 20,000 showed up to hear Chief Executive Chobyo Yara and Shinei Kyan, head of the Council for the Return of Okinawa Prefecture to the Fatherland, demand that Okinawa revert to Japanese control. "The more people shout," said Kyan, "the stronger will be public opinion for our goal." Shouting is hardly needed to convince most Okinawans: Yara was elected last November on a platform demanding fukki, or immediate reversion. Yara has no illusions...
Pizzas and Laundromats. Evidence of the American presence is everywhere. Along blacktopped, four-lane Route 1, built by the U.S., there are miles of drive-in restaurants, Laundromats, pizza parlors and souvenir stands. Big American cars squeeze through Naha's narrow streets. G.I.s and their families crowd in and out of shops, housewives wearing scarves over the inevitable hair curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans...
...committee got entrance exams from the University of Hawaii, raffled off a Vespa motorscooter at a $1,150 profit. When the McCain reached Naha, Okinawa in December, she mustered a U.S. diplomat and two missionaries to find six able, poor boys who would promise to return to Okinawa and help their people. Among the candidates: Hoshin Nakamura, 19, son of a small farmer in the village of Sashki. A B-plus senior at rigorous Chinen Senior High School, Hoshin had no money for college. With ease, he passed the McCain's first test: a statement of purpose. Said Hoshin...
Most surprising is TIME'S statement about an Okinawan law forbidding gambling. Besides the dozens of pachinko (Japanese pinball) parlors centered around Naha's International Street, nearly all the large cabarets have one-armed bandits...
...legislature's 29 seats. The pro-American Democrats skidded Irom 17 seats to seven, and only one of Thoma's supporters was elected. But the Communist Minren won only five seats, half the number they expected. "A stunning blow," confessed Saichi Nakeshi. Red mayor of Naha. "The people disliked the idea of being used as a tool of international Communism," commented the Socialists' snaggle-toothed Tsumichio Asato...