Links

Okinawa Protest Advertising Action (2011 Okinawa Advertisement in The New York Times)

“Protest Against 3 US Military Servicemen Raping a 12-Year-Old School Girl” (Oct. 21, 1995 Okinawan People’s Rally website)

No Fly Zone (The Story of the August 13, 2004 U.S. Marine CH-53D Helicopter Crash into the Okinawa International University Administration Building by OIU faculty)

http://www.city.ginowan.okinawa.jp/DAT/LIB/WEB/1/Dec2009_ginowancity.pdf
(Detailed information about the Futenma U.S. Marine Air Station situation)

http://www.city.ginowan.okinawa.jp/2573/2653/2678/1004.html (Some in English)

Save Life Society (Society for protection of all lives and livelihoods, Henoko, Okinawa)

Ourawan Video Gallery (videos of the marine life in Oura Bay)

Takae Blog (daily news and photo updates from Takae Village)

Nohelipadtakae.org: Voice of Takae

WWF-Japan: “No Helipads in Yanbaru Forest”

Save the Dugong Campaign Center

Citizens’ Network for Biological Diversity in Okinawa

Project Disagree

Futenma-Henoko Action Network

Okinawan Network for the Global Day on Military Spending (GDAMS)

“Protest Against 3 US Military Servicemen Raping a 12-Year-Old School Girl” (website originally created by Okinawans to protest the 1995 gang rape; and after their convictions, extended to the following:
• The removal or reduction of U.S. military bases on Okinawa; • The use of returned land after the removal of military installations; • The revision of SOFA Article VI
To protest against the illegal use of land for the U.S. military by the Japanese government)

Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence 1996 American Peace Caravan Statement (describes

Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence: 2007 Statement

U.S. Military Violence Against Women

Center for Biological Diversity: Saving the Okinawan Dugong

Japan Environmental Lawyers Federation (JELF): “Okinawa: Effects of Long-Term Military Presence” (Paper based on reports by Okinawa Women act Against Military Violence, updated by Yoko Fukumura in 2007)

Ryukyu Shimpo
(Okinawan daily newspaper reports in English)

Okinawa Outreach
(New blog by Okinawans who live in Okinawa)

Henoko hama Tsushin
(Henoko-based blog in Japanese)

Okinawa Goya Project 2011: A Photo Record of Goyas in Okinawa 2011
(Collaborative civic art project in progress aimed at showing the world an evidentiary record of how many goyas Okinawans grow; all are invitated to participate by sending an photo associated with Okinawa goya.)

No Base Yellow
(Blog from the perspective of a U.S. citizen living in Okinawa)

Peace Philosophy Centre
(Comprehensive background and news updates through 3/11/11, including translations of Okinawan media coverage and peace activities)

Ten Thousand Things
(“Culture of peace” blog that includes coverage of the Asia Pacific region, including Okinawa, Jeju Island, and Guam)

Filmmaker Linda Hoaglund’s blog
(Posts on issues related to her 2010 film, ANPO, that explores the impact of the U.S. military presence in Japan through a cultural perspective)

Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, family, militarization, blackness, & the south
(Anthropologist Mitzi Uehara Carter explores her Okinawan and Black American heritage; the history of U.S. military occupation in Okinawa; and more)

Foreign Policy in Focus:

• “The Battle of Okinawa 2010: Japan-U.S. Relations at a Crossroad” by Gavan McCormack (Nov.17, 2010)

• “Who Killed Hatoyama’s Career?” by John Feffer (June 2, 2010)

• “Allied Regime Change” by John Feffer (April 27, 2010)

• “Too Many Overseas Bases” by David Vine (May 24, 2009)

JonMitchellinjapan.com
(Jon Mitchell’s articles on Okinawa)

• “Futenma Photo Story: There’s nobody around to enjoy the festivities at Futenma Air Base’s annual open house day”

• “US Military Defoliants on Okinawa: Agent Orange
Mitchell reviews the evidence that the Pentagon used and stored Agent
Orange in Okinawa, contrary to Pentagon denials” (The Asia-Pacific Journal)

”
Agent Orange buried on Okinawa, vet says: Ex-serviceman claims U.S. used, dumped Vietnam War defoliant (The Japan Times)

• “Evidence for Agent Orange on Okinawa: U.S. veterans speak about its harm to their health and their struggle for justice” (The Japan Times)

• “Koza Remembered: With debate on re-siting or removing U.S. military bases in Okinawa now a hot issue between Tokyo and Washington, Jon Mitchell returns to the scene of the island’s biggest anti-American riot” (The Japan Times

• Beggars’ Belief: The Farmers’ Resistance Movement on Iejima Island, Okinawa” (The Asia-Pacific Journal)

• “Barrier free, border free: Disabled artist Kimura Hiroko’s life-long battle to break boundaries and build bridges” (The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus)

The Asia-Pacific Journal
(In-depth analyses of Okinawan and other Asia-Pacific issues)

• “Economic Crisis Shakes US Forces Overseas: The Price of Base Expansion in Okinawa and Guam” by Michiyo Yonamine

• “Hatoyama’s Confession: The Myth of Deterrence and the Failure to Move a Marine Base Outside Okinawa” by Satoko Norimatsu

• “The World is beginning to know Okinawa”: Ota Masahide Reflects on his Life from the Battle of Okinawa to the Struggle for Okinawa

• “New Year 2011, Okinawa and the Future of East Asia” by Gavan McCormack, Norimatsu Satoko and Mark Selden

• “Henoko, Okinawa: Inside the Sit-In” by Yumiko Kikuno

• “Ampo’s Troubled 50th: Hatoyama’s Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa’s Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship” by Gavan McCormack. (Three-part series examines interrelationships between Article Nine of the Japanese Constitution,  the troubled US-Japan military alliance, and six decades of Okinawan resistance to US military bases.)

• “The Guam Treaty as a Modern “Disposal” of the Ryukyus” by Kunitoshi Sakurai

• “The Futenma Base and the U.S.-Japan Controversy: an Okinawan perspective” by Yoshio Shimoji

• Dugong Swimming in Uncharted Waters: US Judicial Intervention to Protect Okinawa’s ‘Natural Monument’ and Halt Base Construction” by Hideki Yoshikawa

• Community, Resistance and Sustainability in an Okinawan Village: Yomitan” by Miyume Tanji

• “Okinawa and the Paradox of Public Opinion: Base Politics and Protest in Nago City, 1997-2007″ by Yasuhiro Miyagi

DMZ Hawai’i / Aloha ‘Aina
(Asia-Pacific news and peace activities site that includes Okinawa coverage)

US for Okinawa
(Peace Boat-initiated group consisting of international, English-speaking youth in Japan)

• Okinawa Peace Network of Los Angeles

• Hawai’i Okinawa Alliance (HOA)

Comprehensive List of Base Movement Organizations