快讯：琉球国独立运动代表团到达苏格兰考察独立过程，伦 ...

快讯：琉球国独立运动的代表团今天已经到达苏格兰，目的是考察本周苏格兰公投独立的过程，为琉球独立建国收集经验。同时伦敦市民要求从英格兰独立的呼声也渐高，本周已经有20%的伦敦人表示要从大不列颠联合王国独立出来。英国女王今天打破沉默呼吁苏格兰人考虑成熟再投票表决是否独立。

http://www.theguardian.com/world ... an-us-military-base


Okinawa independence movement seeks inspiration from Scotland
Activists from Japanese island hope growing anger over a controversial US military base will boost support
Justin McCurry in Tokyo， theguardian.com, Monday 15 September 2014 01.00 BST       

Campaigners from Okinawa will arrive in Scotland on Monday to seek inspiration from the yes campaign as they look to boost support for making the southern Japanese island an independent nation.

While Okinawa's movement is tiny compared with its counterpart in Scotland, activists say they stand to benefit from mounting public anger over Tokyo's plans to push through the construction of a controversial US military base in defiance of local opposition.

"We're really interested in seeing how the rest of the UK and the international community react if Scotland does vote for independence," said Masaki Tomochi, a professor of economics at Okinawa International University and a leading figure in the independence movement.

"Scotland has every right to be independent and to take decisions about its own future. That's what people all over the world want, including the people of Okinawa."

Tomochi and his colleagues, along with a reporter from the Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper, will tour Scotland meeting voters, academics and Scottish National party officials. Their group has posted a condensed Japanese version of the SNP's Scotland's Future manifesto on its website.

The history of Okinawa, Tomochi argues, is one of bloody sacrifice at mainland Japan's behest, and collusion between Tokyo and Washington, beginning with a secret postwar agreement to allow the US to bring nuclear weapons to the island and maintain military bases there indefinitely.

The 2012 deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft on the island, and the relocation of a military base have added to popular resentment towards Tokyo.

"The only way we can fix this is to declare our independence from Japan and go back to the way we were before Japan used force to take the islands," he said.

Okinawa covers about 0.6% of Japan's land area, but is home to more than half the 47,000 US troops in the country and three-quarters of US bases. Some residents depend on the US military for employment, but campaigners say the bases emasculate the local economy, the poorest of Japan's 47 prefectures.

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快讯：琉球国独立运动的代表团今天已经到达苏格兰，目的是考察本周苏格兰公投独立的过程，为琉球独立建国收集经验。同时伦敦市民要求从英格兰独立的呼声也渐高，本周已经有20%的伦敦人表示要从大不列颠联合王国独立出来。英国女王今天打破沉默呼吁苏格兰人考虑成熟再投票表决是否独立。

http://www.theguardian.com/world ... an-us-military-base


Okinawa independence movement seeks inspiration from Scotland
Activists from Japanese island hope growing anger over a controversial US military base will boost support
Justin McCurry in Tokyo， theguardian.com, Monday 15 September 2014 01.00 BST       

Campaigners from Okinawa will arrive in Scotland on Monday to seek inspiration from the yes campaign as they look to boost support for making the southern Japanese island an independent nation.

While Okinawa's movement is tiny compared with its counterpart in Scotland, activists say they stand to benefit from mounting public anger over Tokyo's plans to push through the construction of a controversial US military base in defiance of local opposition.

"We're really interested in seeing how the rest of the UK and the international community react if Scotland does vote for independence," said Masaki Tomochi, a professor of economics at Okinawa International University and a leading figure in the independence movement.

"Scotland has every right to be independent and to take decisions about its own future. That's what people all over the world want, including the people of Okinawa."

Tomochi and his colleagues, along with a reporter from the Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper, will tour Scotland meeting voters, academics and Scottish National party officials. Their group has posted a condensed Japanese version of the SNP's Scotland's Future manifesto on its website.

The history of Okinawa, Tomochi argues, is one of bloody sacrifice at mainland Japan's behest, and collusion between Tokyo and Washington, beginning with a secret postwar agreement to allow the US to bring nuclear weapons to the island and maintain military bases there indefinitely.

The 2012 deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft on the island, and the relocation of a military base have added to popular resentment towards Tokyo.

"The only way we can fix this is to declare our independence from Japan and go back to the way we were before Japan used force to take the islands," he said.

Okinawa covers about 0.6% of Japan's land area, but is home to more than half the 47,000 US troops in the country and three-quarters of US bases. Some residents depend on the US military for employment, but campaigners say the bases emasculate the local economy, the poorest of Japan's 47 prefectures.

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