Japan's Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR - Occupation-Preoccupation (notes)

Japan's Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR - Occupation-Preoccupation (notes): "Japan’s Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR
Japan’s Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR
Hatoyama’s Waterloo was on the southern island of Okinawa. Perennially frustrated by noise, pollution and crime problems with U.S. military installations, but ignored by generations of conservative governments in Tokyo, Okinawans were energized by Hatoyama’s pledges to move the Marine Air Station Futenma off their island. When Hatoyama announced, after months of delay, that this promise would also be broken, it was the last straw for voters. As his support tumbled to below 20 percent, his party members began to panic.
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