Japan Lawmaker Pushes to Scale Back U.S. Bases

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From The Wall Street Journal:

Son of an American Serviceman Seeks to Reduce Military Presence in Okinawa, Highlighting Ruling Party's Policy Review.

OKINAWA, Japan -- As Japan's new ruling party begins to question its military alliance with the U.S., one freshman lawmaker whose personal history reflects the longstanding ties between the two nations is already pressing the issue.

Denny Tamaki, a newly elected member of the Democratic Party of Japan, is the son of a local woman and a U.S. serviceman. His main goal is to sharply shrink the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, a remote southern island that hosts roughly half of some 45,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan.

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My Comment: Japanese nationalism is showing its head again. I can understand the Japanese desire to be dominant over their own military/security affairs, but being hostile to the country that has given the Japanese people a tremendous amount of assistance and support since the end of the Second World War is not the way to go.