Mayor opposed to U.S. base relocation in Okinawa to seek 3rd term

The race is expected to be closely fought between Inamine and Taketoyo Toguchi, a city assembly member, who supports the base transfer plan. Toguchi, 56, is backed by the local chapter of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party.

But but but... how could this be if so many Okinawans are so opposed to the base transfer

Gambatte Toguchi-san, many all throughout Okinawa are hoping you win and this long delayed transfer can finally be resolved.

Best wishes. Don't give up we need to fight

Transfer the base. Those opposing are simply increasing the chances of an accident in a highly populated area.

Mayor opposed to U.S. base relocation in Okinawa to seek 3rd term, even though he has achieved very little.

They should try to make bases to. relocate to Iwakuni MCAS. It has large area near Ikintaikyo air field.

Posters,

As I've said many times in various posts elsewhere, USMC Air Station Futenma sits on stolen property. The U.S. occupation army encroached upon the area with impunity while area residents were kept captured in camps. When they were released two to three years after the war, they found their old villages were all gone and swallowed up into a vast air station. Visit Ginowan City Museum located at Shimashi, Ginowan City, and confirm for yourself what the area was like before the war. Don't be brainwashed by your military's propaganda machine into believing there was nothing in the area except cane fields and rice paddies.

Confiscation of private property by an occupation army is severely prohibited by international law and conventions. Article 46 of the Convention Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land stipulates that "[f]amily honour and rights, the lives of persons, and private property, as well as religious convictions and practice, must be respected. Private property cannot be confiscated." 

One can confirm the fact that Futenma sits on private land by observing the inside section of the base through its fences.  There are family tombs here and there inside the base along the fences. It's really painful to see the families that own family tombs there have to obtain entry passes to visit the tombs of their ancesters and pay respect to the deceased on special occasions (traditional festivals).

There's no doubt that Futenma sits on stolen property. Therefore, the U.S.'s demand that it be relocated to Henoko is like a car thief demanding a new car for the car he stole. The thief has no right to engage in such dealings, or does he?

Anyone who can see nothing unusual in this preposterous demand is living in the world of injustice for too long.

Correction and additional information about Ginowan City Museum:

Location: 1-25-1 Shimashi, Ginowan City

Office hours: 9:00 - 17:00 Closed every Tuesday and on national holidays

Telephone: 098-870-9317

@voice: write who stole: And write whose land was stolen. When. Then we comment writers will. be able to think you are not working for yourself. Are yo representing land owner?

Why they don't want to relocate to Honshu?

The anti-Inamine camp and challenger Taketoyo Toguchi may exert themselves fully to make the Henoko relocation off the election issue, instead concentrating on the city's economic problems by hyping how beneficial it will be for the city to have close ties and cooperate with the central government, shrewdly finessing the Inamine camp's campaign to make the Henoko issue a central election issue. 

No doubt, the Abe government will support the Toguchi camp lavishly, by promising more financial aids and also by terminating the economic squeeze it has imposed on the city under the Inamine administration. 

Inamine must be very careful about this campaign tactics of the opposition camp.

@vvoice: write why you don't want to. move to Iwakuni.

Funny the minute NK, China , or any country that may attack or hurt the mainland , you're so gratefully the US Military are present.Please help me forgot did Japan attack Pearl Harbor or the US ships attack Japan ? just wondering