NEW: Hideki Yoshikawa, Okinawan Appeal to the US Congress: Futenma Marine Base Relocation and its Environmental Impact: U.S. Responsibility bit.ly/YzJ6LR Last Monday, after assuming his post as the new minister of defense earlier this month, Eto Akinori visited Okinawa governor Nakaima Hirokazu for the first time, expressing his desire to strive towards a visible reduction of the burden of the US military on the prefecture. However, the reality was otherwise, as the Japan-US decision to relocate some of the functions of the Futenma base to a new facility in Henoko remains set in stone. Construction officially began in July in the face of determined Okinawan opposition, and a month later a US Congressional Report noted the heavy handed actions of the Japanese government to force the new base on Okinawans. Now, in an Appeal From Okinawa to the US Congress, anthropologist Hideki Yoshikawa examines the environmental issues that have been ignored by official studies, calling attention to the responsibility of the American military to consider the silent majority that is the natural environment of Okinawa and honor its own environmental assessment procedures. #Okinawa #dugong I Oppose the Expansion of US Bases in Okinawa; Save the Dugong; New Wave to HOPE; Center for Biological Diversity; Earthjustice
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:00:11 +0000
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