Word: okinawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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History of Okinawa reveal distinguished record of conquerors...
Unlike previous conquerors, the U.S. has always declared its intention to hand Okinawa and the rest of the 73 islands it administers in the Ryukyu chain back to Japan. The question is, when? During 23 years of occupation, the U.S. has turned Okinawa into an American Gibraltar in the Pacific, a strategic forward base for nuclear-armed B-52 bombers and a logistics launching pad for the Viet Nam war. At the same time, the continued occupation has become the touchiest issue in Japanese politics-and virtually the only political cause that stirs the 952,000 Okinawans...
...return again," or reunion with Japan at once. His conservative opponent, Junji Nishime, called for ittaika, literally "making one body," or reunion with Japan in a more gradual fashion that would not plunge prospering Okinawans back to a "barefoot existence and sweet-potato diet." In the noisiest campaign in Okinawa's history, Nishime came off second best. When he cornered Yara in a television debate on the economic consequences of U.S. withdrawal (U.S. spending accounts for half the island's G.N.P.), voters were only offended at his disrespect for the opponent who was his former teacher. Meantime, Yara...
Weapons and Umbrellas. In fact, the election results may have less effect in Okinawa than in Japan. Premier Eisaku Sato, who is up for re-election as party leader next week, sent six Cabinet Ministers to stump for Loser Nishime, and suffered a consequent loss of prestige. Yara's election is a sharp reminder to both Sato and the U.S. of an approaching deadline for resolving the question of Okinawa's status. The U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Pact is due to be reviewed in 1970, and could face massive popular opposition if a date for Okinawa...
Oppenheimer's military judgment is hard to fault. A Marine reserve officer since World War II, when he led a battalion ashore at Okinawa, he was called up for Korea, returned last May from a combat tour in Viet Nam, and last month pinned on his brigadier general's stars...