A recently founded organization on Okinawa is attempting to hold to account the powers-that-be for the damage that military contamination is causing the island¡¯s environment.
Established this year by Masami Kawamura, the Informed-Public Project (IPP) seeks to bring transparency to the often murky dealings between the national governments of the United States and Japan, as well as Okinawa¡¯s prefectural authorities.
¡°Tokyo is officially supposed to act as a go-between, delivering Okinawa¡¯s requests to the U.S. side,¡± Kawamura says. ¡°However, the Japanese government sometimes works in dishonest ways that distort or minimize Okinawans¡¯ will. What¡¯s worse is the prefecture¡¯s failure to oversee these exchanges.¡±
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