US Overseas Military Bases Losing Local Support

Since 1972 American troops have committed almost 6,000 crimes while stationed in Japan, 571 of which may be categorized as grave offenses.

New Eastern Outlook
作者 New Eastern Outlook
Protesters hold placards with a slogan that reads: "No to Henoko new base" during a rally in Tokyo as they show their strong support to Okinawans after the Japanese government took the local government in Okinawa to court in mid-November, launching a legal battle in their longstanding dispute over the planned relocation of a U.S. military air base on the southern island.

Recent scandals involving US military personnel have been widely covered by the international media. Instead of being the “bulwark of American democracy” and the “defenders of peace and security” American bases and their occupants are rapidly becoming a symbol of lawlessness and crime, as evident by the vocal criticism that has been voiced by

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‘Our Anger Is Past Its Limit’: Tens Of Thousands Rally Against US Bases In Okinawa

Demonstration a reflection of years of resentment against US military footprint on island, with former Marine suspected of recent murder and rape adding fuel to fire

Andrea Germanos
作者 Andrea Germanos
Protesters wearing masks of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and U.S. President Barack Obama, right, attend a rally in front of the National Diet building in Tokyo Sunday, June 19, 2016. Tens of thousands of Japanese on Sunday protested the presence of U.S. military bases on the southwestern island of Okinawa, many of them wearing black to mourn the rape and killing of a local woman in which a former U.S. Marine is a suspect. The placard, center, reads: "Currently, the Abe administration is going out of control accompanying all Japanese people." (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Okinawa on Sunday was site of a massive protest against U.S. bases, the latest in years of demonstrations, with fresh anger fueled by the recent suspected rape and killing of a woman on the Japanese island by a former Marine. Organizers say that 65,000 people took part in the rally in Naha, Okinawa's capital, and theIrish Times described it as

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After Decades of Tension, U.S. Military Base In Okinawa To Relocate

After having endured several nasty episodes of criminality by U.S. servicemen on its citizens, many residents want the base gone entirely.

Les Neuhaus
作者 Les Neuhaus

With diplomatic stakes high, the governor of Okinawa approved a measure on Friday that will allow the relocation of a controversial U.S. Marine base -- infamous locally for crimes committed by U.S. serviceman that include rape and gang rape -- to another part of the strategic island. Despite overwhelming sentiment from the island’s 1.4 million

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