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People Power: Have Okinawan protests forced Tokyo and Washington to rethink their base plan?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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After nine years of stalling and prevarication over the replacement of Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, and nearly eighteen months of protests against its proposed replacement, a solution of sorts is finally stirring in the dusty halls of power in Kasumigaseki.

On September 24, the Yomiuri newspaper reported that the Japanese government is backing the relocation of Futenma's Marine chopper base to the Marines Camp Schwab in Nago. Tokyo had initially supported the construction of a joint civil-military airport off the coast of Henoko village to replace Futenma.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 9 , September 2005 , e14
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