By Daniel Hurst | Asia Times | June 27, 2017 To some observers, protester Hiroji Yamashiro, 65, has become a symbol of modern Japan’s uneasy attitude towards dissent. The retired civil servant, a long-standing campaigner against the US military presence in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, was detained for five months from October last year […]
RT | May 30, 2017 Japan is opposed to a two-day parachuting drill that the US plans to conduct near the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. Local residents have protested such drills in the past, and this would be the third in two months. Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said the US military failed to notify […]
(MPN) Last week, mainstream media outlets gave minimal attention to the news that the U.S. Naval station in Virginia Beach had spilled an estimated 94,000 gallons of jet fuel into a nearby waterway, less than a mile from the Atlantic Ocean.
Sputnik – 25.04.2017 After years of controversy, Japan has announced its intention to continue building a new air base to house elements of the US Air Force stationed on the island of Okinawa. Tuesday’s initiation of the construction of seawalls around the new base, a replacement for the 1945-era US Air Station Futenma on Okinawa, […]
Xinhua | April 24, 2017 TOKYO – Local residents of Kadena on Okinawa’s main island said the United States military conducting parachute training drills over Okinawa’s mainland on Monday morning was completely unacceptable with the latest provocation coming amid rising anti-U.S. military sentiment on the island. Local media reported that residents in the area still […]
Sputnik – 19.04.2017 Japan has revealed that high levels of a banned pollutant have been found in groundwater underneath Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, on the island of Okinawa. Two recent surveys conducted in August 2016 and January of this year have revealed abnormally high concentrations of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and per-fluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), both […]
Mass meditations, sex slaves and the next march + this day in history w/Charlie Chaplin's body and our song of the day by Presentable Corpse on your Morning Monarchy for March 2, 2017.
RT | February 3, 2017 The governor of Okinawa has used a trip to Washington to reiterate his opposition to the heavy presence of US military bases on the island, urging all Japanese citizens to rethink security arrangements between Tokyo and Washington. Outspoken Governor Takeshi Onaga arrived in the US earlier this week, holding a […]
Protest sign urging global conservation meeting to address the environmental damage from U.S. military bases. (Photo by Ann Wright) By Ann Wright | Consortium News | September 9, 2016 The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has come in for criticism due to its lack of attention to the detrimental effects of wars and […]
