Okinawa Base Issue Illustrates the Age-Old Problem of the Empire

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST

Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr.

\"6a00d8341bf7d953ef01156ff02a98970c-800wi\" Sliding voter support over Futenma base, the U.S. Marine air station in Okinawa, have fanned talk that Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama continues to be in hot water with the U.S. Government. I am writing this commentary just in case the newspapers and the TV News broadcasts in the Delaware Valley aren\’t reporting news regarding this long running dispute with the people in Okinawa and their government.

A bloody battlefield in 1945, Okinawa is the subject of an equally bitter political fight today.

A majority of the prefecture\’s residence want the American military to go else ware.

The U.S. -Japan alliance is almost 50 years old. The treaty terms are simple. The U.S. agrees to defend Japan. Tokyo agrees to be

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