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Okinawa: U.S. Marines Corps training lectures denigrate local residents, hide military crimes.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Jon Mitchell
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Documents from the United States Marine Corps reveal that lectures purported to improve Marines' understanding of Okinawa instead disparage local residents and politicians, downplay military crimes and mislead service members about the island's 27-year occupation by the U.S.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 13 , July 2016 , e2
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Notes

1 The lectures can be viewed in full and downloaded here.

2 The date, February 2014, is printed on the bottom left corner of all 17 slides of one of the released documents. However on the other package, the date 2016/2/11 only appears on the final three sides. On page 17 of this document, the comment, “At the time of this writing, three of its (Democratic Party of Japan) party heads have become prime minister in less than two years,” suggests the script may have been written some time in 2011.

3 Further details of the statistics are available in Japanese via Okinawa Times here.

4 Data on post-Reversion comparative crime statistics are available via Okinawa Times here.

5 A report into the murder at Kadena Air Base is available here; the FBI investigation is available here.

6 Irvin Molotsky, “Admiral has to quit over his comments on Okinawa rape”, New York Times, November 18, 1995.

7 See for example the Melvin Price Report (1956) available in full here.

8 For an in-depth discussion of U.S. abuses of human rights on Okinawa, see Miyume Tanji, Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa, Routledge, London, 2006.

9 The comments were reported by Okinawa Times here.

10 The full video of the press conference is available to view here.

11 “Okinawa Prefectural Assembly demands removal of US Marines from Okinawa”, Ryukyu Shimpo, May 27, 2016. Available here; “65,000 people in rally mourn and demand withdrawal of Marines from Okinawa”, Ryukyu Shimpo, June 19, 2016. Available here.

12 Jon Mitchell, “On Okinawa, U.S. Marines raise tensions with accusations and arrests of peace campaigners”, The Asia-Pacific Journal, March 2, 2015. Available here.