Activists Fumiko Takashima and Mitsue Kawai walk along a fenced access road inside Hyakuri Airfield in Japan. (John M. Glionna / Los Angeles Times)Farmers Wage Turf Battle With Japan Air Force -- L.A. Times
Antiwar farmers near an air base northeast of Tokyo have infiltrated the base by working plots of land and have surrounded it with 'peace parks.' The government seeks to buy them out, but in vain.
Reporting from Hyakuri, Japan - Crouched in his lush green rice fields on this agricultural plain northeast of Tokyo, Masaru Umezawa works the land as his father and grandfather did before him.
On a humid late-summer afternoon, the only sound is the buzzing of the cicadas from a nearby thicket of trees. Then it starts -- slowly at first and building in intensity until it reaches a deafening pitch: the roar of a shiny supersonic jet lifting off the runway at the Japanese military's Hyakuri Airfield.
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My Comment: My money is on the farmers .... but after 50 years I would think that it would be time to move on.
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