Not a Matter of Fate: Okinawa under US-Japanese Rule
One in three Okinawans died in the Battle of Okinawa; decades later US military bases fester like an open wound, bringing crime and pollution.
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Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom
Women intellectuals and activists from across Asia gathered to expose a single truth: US military bases scattered across the continent do not protect their hosts – they import war, poison the land, and exact a…
The Peoples of Asia Know the Cost of War: Hands off Asia!
From Okinawa’s farmers to the Philippines’ ‘Magnificent 12’, Asia’s peoples have confronted US militarism before – a tradition more urgent now as the New Cold War arrives on their shores.
You Cannot Swallow a Needle, However Small: Okinawa’s Sculptor of Resistance
Sculptor Kinjo Minoru honors the lives of Okinawans driven to mass suicide by the Imperial Japanese Army at Chibichiri Cave in April 1945 during the World Anti-Fascist War.
The New Cold War Is Sending Tremors through Northeast Asia
This dossier looks at how the US-led New Cold War against China is destabilising Northeast Asia, focusing on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Strait, and Japan.