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Your post is dishonest the vote was against a specific landfill project.

• boomboomsubban 4y ago
  That vote was about a specific project, there was an earlier more general one that is also discussed in the linked article. Or see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Okinawan_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Okinawan_referendum
• ahelwer 4y ago
  A specific landfill project to... what? > The referendum asked whether voters approved or opposed the landfill work at Henoko Bay for the construction of a new United States Marine Corps base. Can you explain how this is dishonest?
• Kukumber 4y ago
  dishonest? the US does know how to split communities, they weren't stupid when they chose Okinawa i'm pretty sure in the future Okinawa will be the Taiwan of Japan i'd bet all my savings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_people https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/abe-ignores-controversial-okinawa-referendum-on-us-base-move https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/abe-ignores-cont...
  • resoluteteeth 4y ago
    > the US does know how to split communities, they weren't stupid when they chose Okinawa > i'm pretty sure in the future Okinawa will be the Taiwan of Japan > i'd bet all my savings Let me get this straight. You think that the US occupied Okinawa until 1972 and then returned it to Japan, only to then decide to play 12 dimensional chess by intentionally antagonizing okinawans and making them hate the us by all the problems they've caused with their military presence, so that Okinawa will some day split from japan and... do what? Because they sure as hell aren't going to want to have anything to do with the US. Maybe they'll become a vassal state of China again like under the Ryukyu kingdom? I'm not sure that outcome would show that the US wasn't stupid.