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5/5 (10) Japan's first lady Akie Abe goes off the reservation... or does she?  This is one of the strongest indications to Joseph of just how angry the Japanese are, and how strong the desire is…
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Sputnik — 22.07.2016 TOKYO — The residents of Japan’s island prefecture of Okinawa have staged a sit-in protest against the construction of helipads for the US military forces in the region, local media reported Friday. The construction, which was suspended two years ago, resumed on Friday morning, according to media reports. The local residents are […]

Press TV – June 6, 2016 Japanese local assembly candidates who oppose the presence of a US military base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa have won the majority of seats in prefectural elections. The anti-US base candidates won 27 of the 48 seats in the Sunday elections, up from the 23 seats that […]

RT | March 26, 2016 Senior Japanese journalists have denounced PM Shinzo Abe’s government for its recent clampdown on press freedom after the communications minister threatened to revoke their licenses for biased coverage last month. Five Japanese journalists called a press conference to express their concerns over the government’s tightening grip on media. “In Japan […]

Sputnik | March 4, 2016 TOKYO  — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to halt landfill work on the Henoko coastal area of Nago city in Okinawa for the relocation of a US airbase under a court-mediated settlement plan, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Friday. “The government has decided to accept the court-mediated settlement plan,” Nakatani said as quoted by Kyodo news agency. Litigation […]

Sputnik – 11.02.2016 Documents obtained by Muckrock under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed that chemical leaks at the US Kadena Air Base in Okinawa may be the culprit behind the contamination of local drinking water. Not content with poisoning just their own citizens with contaminated water, it seems that an array of accidents […]

Japan aspires to a prominent position on the world stage in accordance with it eminent economic power. But is economic clout by itself sufficient to gain its desired standing?

The thesis of anthropologist David Vine’s latest book, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World, is taboo in American political discourse. It is a radical notion to suggest that foreign bases don’t protect American interests but actively harm them. Candidates who fail to reflexively support U.S. militarism face a political land mine.