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...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 Okinawa a second-class prefecture of Japan...
...whopping 22 of the 29 seats in the legislature-a gain of seven. In the sweep, the People's Party was all but wiped out; it lost four of its five seats in the last legislature and suffered the additional humiliation of seeing the voters reject Mme. Kamejiro Senaga, wife of the party's spellbinding boss. (The other six legislature seats went to the mildly leftist Socialist Masses Party and a conservative independent.) With uncommon political maturity, most Okinawans had clearly accepted Liberal Democrat Ota's common-sense argument that in a time of cold...
Captain Schmitt, officially absolved of blame in the crash, offered his apologies to the townspeople, through the press, and 35 airmen attended Buddhist funeral services for the children. Though Kame-jiro Senaga, leader of the pro-Communist Minren Party, tried to make political capital out of the accident, no one else did, and most Okinawans seemed genuinely impressed by U.S. rescue efforts following the crash. And any critics would have to ignore a startling safety record: the crash caused the first Okinawan fatalities in 14 years of U.S. occupation...
...Senaga brought forth a longtime lieutenant named Saichi Kaneshi to run for his old job. Kaneshi's only opponent was Tatsuo Taira, a onetime Japanese bureaucrat and small businessman whom U.S. authorities ejected as governor of Okinawa in 1952 because of his vaguely Socialist and pro-Japanese leanings. In the campaign, even Businessman Taira charged that "the Americans are trampling on the will of the people." As for Left-Winger Kaneshi, he called on the electorate to "avenge Senaga." Much of the time, Kaneshi sat smirking nervously at the back of his own platform while ex-Mayor Senaga hailed...
...Advice. Concluding that Businessman Taira was the lesser of two evils, the U.S. military administration went into some more political flimflam to ensure his election. On the advice of Okinawan conservatives, General Moore consented to the merger of Naha proper with the neighboring town of Mawashi, supposedly an anti-Senaga stronghold. As it turned out, this bit of gerrymandering was what elected Senaga's candidate Kaneshi. When the votes were tallied last week, Kaneshi proved to have lost Naha proper by 3,000 votes. But in Mawashi, Kaneshi picked up enough votes to give him a narrow...