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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...
...years since U.S. forces stormed ashore on Okinawa in the final major battle of World War II, the island has been transformed into the equivalent of the world's largest aircraft carrier. There are 45,000 American servicemen now based on Okinawa. From sprawling Kadena Airbase, huge B-52 jets roar out nearly every day on bombing missions over South Viet Nam. Much of the island has come to resemble a particularly vulgar version of American suburbia, and U.S. spending now accounts for 60% of Okinawa's $644.4 million G.N.P. If the U.S. were to pull out, Okinawa...
...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. Not quite as visible, but equally pervasive, is American control of Okinawan affairs. Except for Berlin, Okinawa stands as the last occupied territory of World...
...Although Okinawa has its own chief executive, he is subordinate to the American High Commissioner, who currently is Lieut. General James B. Lampert. The "Hicom," as local slang dubs him, has full veto power over all island legislation, can intervene in civil and criminal legal matters at will and even remove any public official from office...
Talks in Washington. Officially, the U.S. position is that while Okinawa is rightfully and eventually Japan's, the is land's strategic location makes continuing U.S. control necessary for some time to come. Reversion to Japan would cut severely into its usefulness, since Sato has been forced by heavy domestic pressures to maintain that the tough strictures on U.S. bases in Japan would also apply to Okinawa.* This fall, when Sato meets Richard Nixon in Washington, he is expected to hold to that uncompromising stand...