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Visiting Okinawa- Potential Trouble Spot
O
N THE SAME
day
l
arrived in Tokyo,
last December, there was a major–
scale anti-Uni ted States riot in Okinawa. It was top
front-page news in all Tokyo newspapers for severa!
days.
Okinawa formerly belonged to Japan. I ts people
are of Japanese stock. When 1 had a 45-minute inter–
view with Prime Minister Eisaku Sato on the following
Wednesday, the situation was still tense.
This riot was the first such outburst of anti-American
violence, but it definitely marked Okinawa as one of the poten–
tia! trouble-spots of the world. In the December interview Mr.
Sato suggested it might be interesting for me to visit Okinawa
on my coming February visit to Japan, interview representative
leaders of the local population, as well as Lieutenant General
J. B. Lampert, the United States High Commissioner. General
Lampert is a former President of West Point.
Prime Minister Sato, of course, has been working with
President Nix0n toward the reversion of Okinawa back to J apan.
It
has been occupied, and governed, by the United States
military forces ever since World War II.
In his State of the World message to Congress, February
25th, President Nixon said the
U.
S. expects to reach "specific
agreements" with J apan this spting, for the return of Okinawa.
He said negotiations "including the retention of Okinawa bases
are progressing steadily." The reversion is scheduled for next
year.
It
so happened that on Wednesday, the day preceding Mr.
Nixon's State of the World message, I was in Okinawa, dis–
cussing the problems of reversion with Lieutenant General Lam–
pert, as well as with the Chief Executive of the Okinawan
people, Chobyo Yara, and other Ieading people.
On this visit I was accompanied by Stanley R. Rader,
General Counsel of Ambassador College, and Osamu Gotoh,
Chairman of the Department of Asían Studies at Ambassador
College.
We were met by a reception committee, headed by Dr.
Nobumoto Ohama, world-known educator and former President
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