Word: okinawans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return of sovereignty to the motherland. But there will probably not be a repetition of the dancing in the streets or displays of fireworks that accompanied the first reports in late 1969 that the U.S. was getting ready to return political control to Tokyo. Even though most Okinawans welcome the change, they have had time enough for uneasy second thoughts about their island's future. "After all," Okinawan Banker Hiroshi Senaga told TIME Correspondent Frank Iwama, "the younger generation was brought up under U.S. administration, and the older generation knows only the discriminatory policies of Tokyo that made prewar...
...problem for the Japanese is how to strengthen Okinawa's economy, which is still heavily dependent on U.S. military spending. To improve the island's unfavorable trade balance ($102 million in exports last year, v. $424 million in imports), the government has urged Japanese firms to open Okinawan branches. Most U.S. firms now on the island expect to remain. As an additional boost, the government plans to hold a huge International Ocean Exposition in 1975 and expects to spend about $1 billion on roads, buildings and other facilities that will continue to help the economy when the exposition...
Inconveniences. "A very happy solution," said Oregon's Senator Mark O. Hatfield. But to Okinawans, it was no such thing. It is "unforgivable," Okinawan officials wired Nixon last week, "to continue to subject the Okinawan people to dangers of the gas because of internal inconveniences in the U.S." Waving death's-head placards, 5,000 angry Okinawans demonstrated outside the U.S. base...