US to hasten return of some Okinawa military-held land to Japan, amid anger over base move

Fox News ^ | December 04, 2015 | Associated Press

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TOKYO – The U.S. and Japan said Friday they are hastening the return of some land the American military holds in Okinawa, seeking to soothe local resentment over the issue on the southern Japanese island.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced a plan to return two sites totaling 7 hectares (17 acres) now controlled by U.S. bases to local authorities by the fiscal year that ends in March 2018.

[TexasFreeper2009]

give it all to them, and bring those soliders home and put them on our border with Mexico instead!

[Psalm 73]

It was land the Japanese stole from the Ryuku people in the first place. Native Okinawans don't like the Japanese - why should we return the land back to their "oppressors"?
(Besides, it's a great place for an air base)

[Graybeard58]

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy

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What a joke.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I was upset forty years ago when we returned Iwo Jima back to Japan. We paid too dear a price for it to give it up, and the same for Okinawa.