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other-determined," complains Governor Ota.85   It is time to

allow Okinawans to take control of their own destiny.

Notes

1.  See A Message from Okinawa on Bases, Peace, and

Culture (Naha, Japan: Okinawa Prefectural Government,

undated), pp. 8-9, 12-13.

2.  Okinawa Prefectural Government, "Reduction and

Realignment of U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa," submitted

to the U.S. government, April 1997, p. 1.  Photocopy in

author's possession.

3.  Gary Anderson, "Good Neighbors in Okinawa," Washington

Times, March 17, 1998, p. A21.

4.  A fine history of the islands is George Kerr, Okinawa:

The History of an Island People (Rutland, Vt.: Charles E.

Tuttle, 1958).

5.  Quoted in George Feifer, Tennozan: The Battle of

Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb (New York: Ticknor & Fields,

1992), p. 506.

6.

Quoted in ibid., pp. 376-77.

7.  Quoted in Chalmers Johnson, "Go-Banken-Sama, Go Home!"

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July-August 1996,

p. 24.

8.

Ibid.

9.  The disgraceful story is told in Kozy Amemiya, "The

Bolivian Connection: U.S. Bases and Okinawan Emigration,"

Japan Policy Research Institute Working Paper no. 25,

October 1996.

10. Conversation in Naha, Okinawa, March 25, 1998.

11. Masahide Ota, "Why Can't We Reduce the U.S. Military

Presence in Okinawa?" Paper presented to the Japan Policy

Research Institute Conference on Security and Stability in

East Asia, June 1997, p. 2.

12. Quoted in "Governor Ota at the Supreme Court of

Japan," Ryukyuanist, no. 35 (Winter 1996-97): 6.

13. Quoted in Amemiya, p. 3.