Yoshikawa Hideki
Biographic Data
| ID | 279158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoshikawa Hideki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoshikawa |
| FAMILY NAME | Hideki |
| SIGNATURE | HIDEKI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Plight of the Okinawa Dugong
On July 10, 2020, seventy-one Okinawan and Japanese civil society organizations and groups (and one Philippine organization) sent a letter of request and a civil society report to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission (MMC), the U.S. federal agency in charge of overseeing the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act. The letter asks the MMC to "review and comment" on the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) efforts to preserve the Okinawa dugong, an endangere…
Hesitant Heritage
On February 1, 2019, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment submitted to UNESCO and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) its nomination of four areas in the Ryukyu archipelago for UNESCO World Natural Heritage status. The areas are Amami-Oshima Island, Tokuno-Shima Island, the Northern Part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island (see the Nomination Document and the Nomination Annexes
Abe's Military Base Plan for Okinawa Sinking in Mayonnaise
After a long silence, the Abe government has finally admitted that the construction of a U.S. military base at Henoko-Oura Bay in Okinawa requires significant changes to the original land reclamation plan (see Asahi Shimbun). Parts of the seafloor of the construction site have proven to be extremely fragile, having the consistency of mayonnaise. To solidify the seafloor sufficiently to support a functional airport, a “sand compaction pile method”…
U.S. Military Base Construction at Henoko-Oura Bay and the Okinawan Governor's Strategy to Stop It
This paper analyses the present (2018) state of the struggle between the government of Japan and the government and people of the prefecture of Okinawa, focussing on its most recent phase, since the Okinawan prefectural complaint was dismissed by the Supreme Court in December 2016. Governor Onaga then revoked his 2015 cancellation of the 2013 license to reclaim parts of Oura Bay as site for the base construction and works resumed in April 2017 af…
Five Okinawan Views on the Nago Mayoral Election of February 2018
Nago City (Population: 61,000) in northern Okinawa held its election for mayor on 4 February 2018. The incumbent, Inamine Susumu, stalwart of the anti-Henoko base movement bidding for a third term in office (following victory in 2010 and 2014) was defeated 20,389 to 16,921 by Toguchi Taketoyo, backed by the ruling national Liberal-Democratic Party and its Buddhist alliance partner, Komeito. The outcome was not so much a victory of one group from …
Seawall Construction on Oura Bay
The New Battle of OkinawaOn the morning of April 25, 2017, amidst continuing opposition, the Okinawa Defense Bureau began "construction of a seawall" in the area of Henoko-Oura Bay in Nago City, Okinawa. Many saw this as the real beginning of land reclamation work to build a U.S. military base there to replace the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan City
Okinawa Update
The “Okinawa problem” to which the APJ has paid so much attention over recent years continues to evolve, and the contradiction between the national governments of Japan and the United States on the one hand and the prefectural government and people of Okinawa on the other to intensify. The following paper was drafted by Hideki Yoshikawa and issued on May 19 in the name of the US Working Group section of the “All Okinawa Council.” The “All-Okinawa…
Okinawa
Okinawa: NGO Appeal to the United Nations and to US Military and Government over Base Matters, December 2015 and December 20161 Introduction, by Hideki Yoshikawa2 Document 1. Okinawan Citizens' Groups, "Joint Submission to United Nations," December 2015
All Okinawa Goes to Washington - The Okinawan Appeal to the American Government and People
Between 15 and 21 November 2015, the "All-Okinawa Council" (shimagurumi kaigi) - an Okinawan mass organization set up in July 2014 representing local communities, civil society groups, local assemblies, and business establishments - dispatched a 26-member delegation to San Francisco and Washington D.C, to present the Okinawan stance of unshakable opposition to any new base construction in Okinawa. Prominent Okinawan businessman, and chair of the …
Urgent Situation at Okinawa's Henoko and Oura Bay
Here is our update on the situation concerning US military base construction in Henoko and Oura Bay. We have divided it into three parts: The Japanese government (and US government), Opposition movements, and issues that are unclear and need to be clarified. Many things are very clear now. Both the Japanese government and people in Okinawa are so determined to prevail that we expect the tensions between the two to escalate with the possibility th…
Dugong Swimming in Uncharted Waters
On September 15, 2007, Higashionna Takuma and Makishi Yoshikazu were en route from Okinawa, Japan to San Francisco for hearings in what had come to be known as the "dugong lawsuit," scheduled to be held two days later in the US district court for the northern district of California. Higashionna, eco-tour guide, and Makishi, award-winning architect, both well-recognized environmental activists in Okinawa, Anxious and excited about the public heari…
Internationalizing the Okinawan Struggle
With the Bush administration in deep trouble on many fronts, the government of Japan is striving to carry out a reorganization that will integrate Japanese forces in American strategic actions throughout the Arc of Instability. For ten years, from 1996, Japan's longest unfulfilled promise has been to build a new base for the US marines in Okinawa to replace the inconvenient, obsolescent and politically charged Futenma. All efforts at construction…
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Internationalizing the Okinawan Struggle
With the Bush administration in deep trouble on many fronts, the government of Japan is striving to carry out a reorganization that will integrate Japanese forces in American strategic actions throughout the Arc of Instability. For ten years, from 1996, Japan's longest unfulfilled promise has been to build a new base for the US marines in Okinawa to replace the inconvenient, obsolescent and politically charged Futenma. All efforts at construction…
Dugong Swimming in Uncharted Waters
On September 15, 2007, Higashionna Takuma and Makishi Yoshikazu were en route from Okinawa, Japan to San Francisco for hearings in what had come to be known as the "dugong lawsuit," scheduled to be held two days later in the US district court for the northern district of California. Higashionna, eco-tour guide, and Makishi, award-winning architect, both well-recognized environmental activists in Okinawa, Anxious and excited about the public heari…
Urgent Situation at Okinawa's Henoko and Oura Bay
Here is our update on the situation concerning US military base construction in Henoko and Oura Bay. We have divided it into three parts: The Japanese government (and US government), Opposition movements, and issues that are unclear and need to be clarified. Many things are very clear now. Both the Japanese government and people in Okinawa are so determined to prevail that we expect the tensions between the two to escalate with the possibility th…
All Okinawa Goes to Washington - The Okinawan Appeal to the American Government and People
Between 15 and 21 November 2015, the "All-Okinawa Council" (shimagurumi kaigi) - an Okinawan mass organization set up in July 2014 representing local communities, civil society groups, local assemblies, and business establishments - dispatched a 26-member delegation to San Francisco and Washington D.C, to present the Okinawan stance of unshakable opposition to any new base construction in Okinawa. Prominent Okinawan businessman, and chair of the …
Okinawa Update
The “Okinawa problem” to which the APJ has paid so much attention over recent years continues to evolve, and the contradiction between the national governments of Japan and the United States on the one hand and the prefectural government and people of Okinawa on the other to intensify. The following paper was drafted by Hideki Yoshikawa and issued on May 19 in the name of the US Working Group section of the “All Okinawa Council.” The “All-Okinawa…
Okinawa
Okinawa: NGO Appeal to the United Nations and to US Military and Government over Base Matters, December 2015 and December 20161 Introduction, by Hideki Yoshikawa2 Document 1. Okinawan Citizens' Groups, "Joint Submission to United Nations," December 2015
Seawall Construction on Oura Bay
The New Battle of OkinawaOn the morning of April 25, 2017, amidst continuing opposition, the Okinawa Defense Bureau began "construction of a seawall" in the area of Henoko-Oura Bay in Nago City, Okinawa. Many saw this as the real beginning of land reclamation work to build a U.S. military base there to replace the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan City
U.S. Military Base Construction at Henoko-Oura Bay and the Okinawan Governor's Strategy to Stop It
This paper analyses the present (2018) state of the struggle between the government of Japan and the government and people of the prefecture of Okinawa, focussing on its most recent phase, since the Okinawan prefectural complaint was dismissed by the Supreme Court in December 2016. Governor Onaga then revoked his 2015 cancellation of the 2013 license to reclaim parts of Oura Bay as site for the base construction and works resumed in April 2017 af…
Five Okinawan Views on the Nago Mayoral Election of February 2018
Nago City (Population: 61,000) in northern Okinawa held its election for mayor on 4 February 2018. The incumbent, Inamine Susumu, stalwart of the anti-Henoko base movement bidding for a third term in office (following victory in 2010 and 2014) was defeated 20,389 to 16,921 by Toguchi Taketoyo, backed by the ruling national Liberal-Democratic Party and its Buddhist alliance partner, Komeito. The outcome was not so much a victory of one group from …
Hesitant Heritage
On February 1, 2019, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment submitted to UNESCO and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) its nomination of four areas in the Ryukyu archipelago for UNESCO World Natural Heritage status. The areas are Amami-Oshima Island, Tokuno-Shima Island, the Northern Part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island (see the Nomination Document and the Nomination Annexes
Abe's Military Base Plan for Okinawa Sinking in Mayonnaise
After a long silence, the Abe government has finally admitted that the construction of a U.S. military base at Henoko-Oura Bay in Okinawa requires significant changes to the original land reclamation plan (see Asahi Shimbun). Parts of the seafloor of the construction site have proven to be extremely fragile, having the consistency of mayonnaise. To solidify the seafloor sufficiently to support a functional airport, a “sand compaction pile method”…
The Plight of the Okinawa Dugong
On July 10, 2020, seventy-one Okinawan and Japanese civil society organizations and groups (and one Philippine organization) sent a letter of request and a civil society report to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission (MMC), the U.S. federal agency in charge of overseeing the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act. The letter asks the MMC to "review and comment" on the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) efforts to preserve the Okinawa dugong, an endangere…
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