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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
Thermogard, what experience do you have with the USN or Japan? What experience do you have with the USN presence in Japan?...So, I have to wonder how much "field experience" you have with these matters. I've seen the protests, been up close and personal to them
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I see no connection between
my own military experience and
the attitude of native Japanese toward to American servicemen currently located in Japan. Sorry.
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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
I was Navy, I currently have an affiliation with the Navy, and I have a civilian job in Japan. Also my coworkers know of my previous position and current affiliation. I've had conversations with them and none of them relish the idea of a Japan without US protection....And it is a protection I take seriously. I would lay my life on the line to defend Japan. It's the right thing to do
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LOL. You and your coworkers are Americans, right? So it is normal that you support a point of view of the US Administration.
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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
We are not occupiers and in the 1940s, the Okinawans called us liberators because Japanese commanders used Okinawans as human shields.
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So, feel free to provide a valid source where Okinawans called Americans as "liberators".
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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
So, please tell me where you get your ideas. They do not match up with my experiences.
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I got "my ideas' from the Net. For instance :
According to a 2007 Okinawa Times poll, 85% of Okinawans oppose the presence of the U.S. military[17] due to noise pollution from military drills, aircraft accidents, such as one in 1959 which killed 17 people, and environmental degradation[18], and crimes committed by U.S. military personnel.[19] The Okinawan prefectural government and local municipalities have made various withdrawal demands of the U.S. military since the end of WWII[20], but no fundamental solution has ever been undertaken by either the Japanese or U.S. governments.
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Okinawa Prefecture is still a part of Japan, right?
