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14. Anderson, "Good Neighbors in Okinawa."

15. Okinawa Prefectural Government, "Base Return Action

Program (proposal)," January 1996, p. 3.

16. Ota, "Why Can't We Reduce the U.S. Military Presence

in Okinawa?" p. 1.

17. Kin Township (Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), "Kin Township

and the Base," undated, p. 1.

18. Conversation in Kadena, Okinawa, March 26, 1998.

19. Conversation in Ginowan, Okinawa, March 26, 1998.

20. Conversation in Urasoe, Okinawa, March 25, 1998.

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

Japan," p. 5.

22. U.S. Department of Defense, United States Security

Strategy for the East Asia-Pacific Region (Washington: U.S.

Department of Defense, February 1995).

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

Japan," p. 5.

24. Quoted in Arthur Zich, "Okinawa, Seoul: Are the Bases

Needed?" Impact 21, March 1997, p. 12.

25. Quoted in Mike Millard, "Okinawa, Then and Now," Japan

Policy Research Institute Occasional Paper no. 11, February

1998, p. 2.

26. Conversation in Naha, Okinawa, March 27, 1998.

27. The referendum grew out of frustration over the rape,

and itself became a contentious political issue.  See

Robert Eldridge, "The 1996 Okinawa Referendum on U.S. Base

Reductions," Asian Survey 37, no. 10 (October 1997): 879-

904.

28. Conversation in Naha, Okinawa, March 27, 1998.

29. Special Action Committee on Okinawa, "The SACO Final

Report," December 2, 1996.  Photocopy in author's posses-

sion.

30. A mid-1997 poll found that 72 percent of mainland

residents supported a reduction in U.S. bases on Okinawa;

15 percent desired an immediate withdrawal.  "72 Percent