The struggle against U.S. military presence in Okinawa

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Angry Okinawans Demand ‘U.S. Out’
By Doug Jenness, The Militant 6 November 1995. In the largest protest rally in Okinawa's history tens of thousands turned out October 21 to demand the removal of U.S. troops. The action on the Japanese island was the latest in a series of protests there since September 4, the day three U.S. soldiers raped a 12-year-old girl.
Okinawa Referendum on Bases: US, Japan say: ‘Vote be damned!’
By Judi Cheng, in Workers World, 26 September 1996. Japan maintains US bases despite overwhelming vote by Okinawans to the contrary.
Okinawans end 3-day protest against US bases
By Shunji Nozawa and Shinichi Kanzaki, Mainichi Shimbun, Sunday 16 May 1999. Some 4,000 people calling for an Okinawa free of military bases ended a three-day march on Saturday, as the Okinawa Prefecture marked the 27th anniversary of its reversion to Japan.
Okinawans protest US forces relocation
Mainichi Shimbun, Sunday 24 October 1999. Citizens groups and labor unions held a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Saturday in protest at a plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps.' Futenma Air Station and a military port in Naha within the prefecture.
Okinawa council slams pervert US troops
Mainichi Shimbun, Tuesday 16 January 2001. In protest against a recent molestation case by a U.S. serviceman, a municipal assembly on Monday passed a resolution demanding a reduction in the number of the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa.
Okinawans rally for fewer marines
The Japan Times, 27 April 2001. Some 4,000 residents of Okinawa gathered Wednesday at a park in Naha to demand the U.S. Marines Corps presence be scaled down in the prefecture in the wake of a number of crimes committed by service personnel.
Rumsfeld gets an earful from Okinawa official
By Monica Moorehead, Workers World, 27 November 2003. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Okinawa took an unexpected, humiliating turn on Nov. 16. The governor of Okinawa, Keiichi Inamine, presented war criminal Rumsfeld with a petition of grievances regarding the oppressive behavior of the U.S. military.