Under the government design, a major military facility would be constructed on Oura Bay (Henoko district) for the US Marine Corps

Gavan McCormack
In and around Okinawa, events of unparalleled importance continue to unfold, with implications for Japan, the US-Japan and US-Japan-China relationships
Introduction – The Servile and the Autonomous As Japan moved to conduct House of Representatives elections in December 2012, attention in Western…
Resume More than six decades from the San Francisco Treaty that purportedly resolved the Asia-Pacific War and created a system of peace,…
3:11 – The What It is just over two years since Japan’s quake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. It was Japan’s 3rd nuclear…
On December 26, 2012 Abe Shinzo is to resume the position of Prime Minister of Japan, following the resounding victory of the…
Part One – The Pacific Dividing Up the Oceans “Modern” history has been the history of states and empires and the…
On 16 March 2012, North Korea announced that it would launch an earth observation satellite named Kwangmyongsong (Lodestar) 3, aboard an Unha…
Governments come and go in Japan, Noda Yoshihiko's the most recent, being the third since the general elections of 30 August 2009…