US Military ‘Occupation’ of Okinawa is ‘Huge Backdoor’ for COVID-19 Amid Island’s Tight Controls

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A new COVID-19 outbreak among US military members on five US bases in Okinawa, Japan, has greatly incensed the people of Okinawa, who went through great strides to prevent COVID-19 infections in the Japanese prefecture, KJ Noh, a peace activist and scholar on the geopolitics of Asia, told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Thursday.

“By all rights, it should have been granted its own independence after the end of World War II, but instead it was kept as a US forward base because of its geostrategic importance, and since then, it’s hosted about half of the 55,000 troops that the US has stationed in Japan. What has happened very recently in Okinawa is that at least 94 – possibly 100, the numbers are actually not clear – [new COVID-19 cases] have been discovered,” Noh explained.

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