American & English Peace Walkers Came to Okinawa


Peace Walkers arrived at Henoko Fishermans Port.


Locals joined for Dinner at Community center where neighbor of Henoko.


Walkers joined sit-in at Camp Schwab.


Walkers joined the arms with Okinawan People.


Walking at Southern Okinawa where the Battle of Okinawa was Heavily Fought.


Over Looking Oura Bay where is Proposed site for Reclamation.



On 10th to 16th January 2017, 
5 Monks, 3 Veterans for Peace, One Native American Woman (Wampanoag), African American and Chinese Americans, Vietnamese American, Japanese Americans, and 3 women. 2 Japanese drivers.

It was a historical action by over 30 delegates from U.S. and England.

Walkers first visited southern Okinawa to learn a history about the Battle of Okinawa.
Without knowing the history, You won't understand the present situation

Next day, .Walkers visited Kakazu hill top where you can over look the Futenma Air Base.

Futenma Air Base is not called officially as Air Base, Because above the air way there are houses, schools, hospitals, kinder gardens and even city office. So Aerial law of Japan or even America, This Futenma Base is illegal for the law.

Then Walkers arrived at Yomitan Village.

Gathering at night and told a story about Standing Rock to Okinawa people.

In a morning visited Shimuk cave and Chibichiri cave.  
Shimuk is the one no one get killed because before the U.S.-Japan war occured, many Okinawans were in Hawaii. Therefore, those immigrants knew that how U.S. soldiers treat enemies. So they persuaded other Okinawans in a cave to be prisoners of war who were wanting to commit suicide because they only knew that how Japanese soldiers treat prisoners of war in Asian countries.

In a another cave Chibichiri, there was horrible moment that they choose to commit suicide rather than being captured by U.S. soldiers.
Even mothers killed their children, they believed it's better to be dead rather than being captured.

Next day, walkers joined Kadena Action at a gate for Kadena Air Force Base.
This action has been taking on every Friday.

It was a great moment that we had a speaker from Veterans for Peace, Native American, African American, Vietnamese woman, Senior Buddhist Monk and Okinawan Elder.

Some of the walkers pointed out about Okinawa & Native American Issue is same root.
I put Hawaii and Guam,too.

a Law of the Nature which many Indigenous community used to be live with has been destroying the Future of Human World.

Is it important to have a solidarity between Okinawa & American Indian ?





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

mysterious taiwan

Image
                               ・ The area is about the size of Kyushu, Japan. ・ There are many Chinese speakers in the north. It has a large population centered around Taipei. ・ There are many Taiwanese speakers in the south and the population is small. ・ Mountain ranges run from north to south and in the center (the highest peak is Yushan, approximately 4000 m). ・ There are many Han people on the west side, and there are many large cities. ・ The eastern side is rich in nature with many areas where indigenous people live. ・ In Taiwan, there is a mausoleum dedicated to Japanese soldiers and warships from the Japanese colonial period. ・ Two days after the 2024 presidential election, Nauru announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Taiwan and announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with China. The remaining 12 countries have diplomatic relations. ・ Taiwan and Japan are each other's favorite countries. Shy 5-6 year old who says his future dream is to
Read more

Miyako island, Small Okinawa's Small Island

Image
  picture of Miyako island's militarize plan 11 th February “The Symposium for thinking a peace & military bases at North East Asia” was held at Miyako island. 9 people from Korea visited this time. (Pyeongtaek & Jeju island) Pyeongtaek is where biggest U.S. Army base in the world exists. Jeju island where Korean government constructed new Navy base on 2016 at Gangjeong village despite of strong opposition movement. I’d like to tell you what I saw & I felt by coming Miyako island after one year of my last visiting. Last year of January, when I came, there were no buildings at the site of Chiyoda New Japanese Defense Force’s base. In one year, a dozen of barracks for soldiers were already built and a forest of community prayer site was cut down much smaller and ammunition depots, 700 tons fuel tanks are under construction. However, under the tanks, there is a soft ground which it may not be able to support
Read more

Okinawa Today.

Image
Thank you ... Governor Onaga. We will not forget your dedication to Okinawa. Okinawan governor Onaga past away on 8th Aug. He had a pancreas cancer. He was given surgery this April. If he gave up his job at that point, he 'd may be survived up to now. His responsibility was so much to Okinawa. He was an one of the most powerful gorveronor in Okinawan history. He was a member of Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) which is the biggest political party in Japan. Priminister Abe is the top of LDP. However, when Mr. Onaga saw how Japanese goverment treat Okinawa, He decided to leave from LDP. And Mr. Onaga ran for Okinawa governor and He was elected. What was a special about a governor Onaga is uniting Okinawan conservatives to stop U.S. military eapansion. U.S. mlitary issue in Okinawa was always devided conservative party and liberal party. However, Mr. Onaga joined the hands with liberals to stop new U.S. base expansion. He said, No More Ideology But Identity. He me
Read more