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Burning Issue. The U.S. presence, and its use of the island as an operations base for Viet Nam, have provided ultranationalist rightists and anti-American leftists in Japan with a burning issue against the pro-U.S. government of Premier Eisaku Sato. Last week the U.S. approached the difficult decision. As Japan's Foreign Minister visited the White House to open formal talks on reversion, the Nixon Administration let it be known that it will soon move to return Okinawa and the other Ryukyus to Japanese control...
Formal announcement of the decision is expected in November, when Sato visits Washington. Reversion will probably come in 1972. The U.S. is prepared to agree to remove all nuclear weapons and its force of 20 B-52 bombers from the island. In addition, Washington is expected to consent to prior consultation with Japan before launching combat operations against any other Asian nation from Okinawa bases. This agreement, satisfactory to Tokyo, would allow continued U.S. military operations on the island, but under the same restrictions now imposed on the 148 U.S. bases in Japan itself...
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...
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...
Above Oratory. If the Russians seemed particularly helpful, it was perhaps because they themselves were growing leary of the erratic North Korean Communists. Even so, the Soviets may benefit from North Korea's attack on the U.S. plane. Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato took an unusually forthright pro-U.S. position after the EC-121 went down, but Japan's citizenry has become increasingly edgy about the risks attendant on playing host to the U.S. military. Moscow-as well as Peking and Pyongyang-would like to see American strength reduced in the far Pacific. With...