Word: ryukyu
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...occupied area even after Japan regained its sovereignty. Last week victor and vanquished moved to restore the island to its old owner. After two days of talks in Washington, President Nixon and Premier Eisaku Sato agreed to a timetable for the long-promised return to Japanese control of the Ryukyu chain, of which Okinawa is the largest island...
Nuclear Ban. According to the agreement, the Ryukyu Islands will revert to Japan in 1972. The U.S., however, will retain the right to maintain military bases there. These bases will be subject to the terms of the U.S.-Japanese Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty, which forbids the U.S. to deploy nuclear weapons without the approval of the Japanese. The U.S. will remove its nuclear weapons from the island before Japan takes control. If the Viet Nam war is not ended by then, the U.S. reserved the option to ask Tokyo's permission to fly combat support missions from Okinawa...
...Washington this week for talks with President Nixon, Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato has one item at the top on his agenda: Okinawa. Because of intense antiwar sentiment and rising nationalism the island has become an explosive issue in Japan. Sato hopes to get back Okinawa and the entire Ryukyu island chain, which the U.S. captured from Japan...
...Shanghai, it is honeycombed with 91 military installations accommodating 45,000 U.S. troops, It is also, however, a growing threat to harmonious U.S.-Japanese relations. A quarter-century after the war, the continued rule of 1,000,000 citizens of Okinawa and the 140 other islands of the Ryukyu chain by a U.S. military commander is a constant source of irritation to both the islanders and the Japanese. Both want political control of the chain returned to Tokyo...
Once again it was Okinawa Day in Japan, and the students were ostensibly demonstrating their support for the return of the U.S. -occupied Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, to Japan. In fact, the demonstrators' slogans paid scant heed to Okinawa, concentrating in stead on anti-Premier Sato and anti-U.S. posturing. For the 300 Okinawans who had come to Tokyo to hold their own restrained protest - and who felt that their interests were what was at stake - the day was sobering. "I'm afraid the student violence will end up dampening the movement for us," said 20-year...