Posted on 03/05/2006 6:41:25 PM PST by voletti
TOKYO: Thousands of protesters gathered on Sunday on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to rally against plans to relocate a US air base there, with reports saying the protesters numbered as many as 35,000. Holding placards demanding the immediate closure of the base and its relocation off the island, about 35,000 people took part in the rally in Ginowan, Kyodo News and public broadcaster NHK reported. “The city of Ginowan strongly demands that Futemma, the world’s most dangerous base, be shut down immediately and relocated outside of Japan,” Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha was quoted as saying in the Kyodo report. “If there is no US bases in Okinawa, it will be good and safe for our children,” a local woman participating in the rally told NHK. But few other communities are willing to host US bases, which are in the country under a security alliance as Japan has been officially barred from keeping a military since World War II. Another southwestern city of Iwakuni outside Okinawa will vote March 12 on whether to allow more US warplanes on its soil, in a largely symbolic referendum on the controversial plan to shift US forces in the country. afp
Ok, how about a Chinese government for Japan?
Ok, how about a Chinese government for Japan?
Sorry double post :)
I worked with a guy once who married an Okinawan woman - he was a really lucky guy!
with reports saying the protesters numbered as many as 35,000
Uh hah ... we better change our plans! ROTFLOL!!!
I know.
Its a consistent theme that keeps cropping up in VDH's writings for example.
Its easy to mock the cvivilized.
Dissing the US carries little risk etc and hence all these gooseballs indulge merrily in it.
The same fuzzbombs who couldn't /wouldn't dare to stand by Denmark are out in force protesting US imperialism (yeah, right).
Yep the Chi-coms have been waiting a looooong time to settle old debts...
The Japs should want no part of China or alienating themselves
from the USA....but kids are stupid...and their parents have forgotten..
I think they need to review the Charter
I wonder how many women were protesting? Women who owe quite a bit to the United States, if I'm not mistaken, in terms of their Constitution e wrote for them...
This has become an annual Jap tradition when the weather turns nice and the cherry blossoms are in bloom.
You know, with the way the Japanese treated American prisoners during the war, it is a wonder why we let them continue to survive.
Imagine a world where the Soviets had to decide the fate of the Japanese.
Why is that?
I hope people figure it out. When you are fighting, you keep fighting until they are really really defeated, and then you keep fighting a bit more. If you want to keep a piece of the dirt, you take it, be sure you have defensible borders, and don't lease it. Annex it outright.
If they don't surrender, you keep fighting and killing, until they change their mind, and then you keep fighting anyways.
Thats the part I'm thinking. These people know that we had more than two bombs don't they?
When did that happen?
Do the Ryukans know?
Was Cindy Sheehan there?
Her son died in the military btw...and she still supports the the troops...
Yeah - she's a real patriot...
I agree.
And the media dutifully exagerates the protesting kooks with incessant disproportionate coverge.
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