You are correct; both bases are located in Okinawa. And, if one should peel the onion, probably would find that this is an attempted land grab so to commercially develop the land. However, my statement/position was not just based upon this article. I have acquired this position over several years of reading/watching protests against U.S. military troops in these places, especially Europe, they have been the most vocal. It does seem as though the S. Koreans have cooled their jets a bit since the N. Koreans have been so belligerent lately. I have looked this data up before but am too lazy to do it right now, but the EU has a larger population than the U.S., larger GDP, but spends far less on their own defense than the U.S., measured either in absolute dollars or as a percentage of GDP.
Perhaps someone can explain to me why we gave Okinawa back to the Japanese? Seems to me that we (our fathers) fought and died for that piece of real estate. I’ve only been there twice, just passing through, in the 1960s. We owned the place then.