The US-Japan 'Alliance', Okinawa, and Three Looming Elections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2132852 |
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| Authors | Gavan Mccormack (Okinawa University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466010009265 |
| OpenAlex | W4410182007 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
World attention through the early months of 2010 focussed on the tiny hamlet of Henoko in Northern Okinawa as Prime Minister Hatoyama struggled to find a way to meet his (and the Democratic Party of Japan's) electoral commitment to see that no substitute for the existing Futenma Marine Air Station be constructed in Okinawa. Confronted by adamantine pressures from the US government, and surrounded by uncooperative (some would say even traitorous) bureaucrats who insisted there was no other way but to submit to the US-Japan agreement to construct a new base negotiated by the former LDP government. Hatoyama duly capitulated, reaching agreement on 28 May 2010 that the 2009 Guam International Agreement (or Treaty) would be implemented, and that Japan would pay $6.09 billion towards the cost of relocating 8,000 Marines and 9,000 of their family members from Futenma to Guam by 2014, while also constructing a "Futenma Replacement Facility" in the vicinity of Henoko, by the shores of the Oura Bay in Northern Okinawa. Details of the "location, configuration and construction method would be completed ... no later than the end of August" by a joint committee of specialists
Alliance · Cognitive psychology · Looming · Political science · History · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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