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 Kanehide industrial and property group, Goya Morimasa, led the delegation, and the paper that follows is the document in which All Okinawa presented its case

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