Former civil servants, schoolteachers and professors are among those attempting to block trucks bringing supplies for the construction of a vast new camp near an American military base on the main island of the southern prefecture of Okinawa. The Americans do not want to lose even more public support for their presence, which they and Japan consider vital to regional security http://econ.st/1zKyLaF
Okinawa hosts about half of all 53,000 American troops in Japan; their 32 military sites occupy nearly a fifth of the main island’s tiny area. That outsized burden has long rankled Okinawan residents. A new planned base would ruin a coral-filled bay, and according to ancient Okinawan lore a paradise known as nirai kanai lies out to sea http://econ.st/1zKOuqs
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