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52. Robert Burns, “Rumsfeld Holds Range of Talks in Tokyo,” Associated Press, November 16, 2003.

53. Editorial, “Crash of U.S. Helicopter in Okinawa,” Mainichi Shimbun, August 18, 2004.

54. Editorial, “Government Should Give Up Henoko Plan for Futenma Transfer,” Asahi Shimbun, April 26, 2005; David McNeill, “People Power: Have Okinawan Protests Forced Tokyo and Washington to Rethink Their Base Plan?” Japan Focus, September 27, 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=407; Sarah Buckley, “Okinawa Base Battle Resolved,” BBC News, October 26, 2005; Gavan McCormack, “Okinawa and the Revamped U.S.-Japan Alliance,” Japan Focus, November 15, 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=449.

55. “U.S. Copter Crashes on Campus; Local Ire Raised,” Japan Times, August 14, 2004; James Brooke, “Ginowan Journal,” New York Times, September 13, 2004; “Okinawa, U.S. Helicopter Accident: Back to Square One,” Mainichi Shimbun, September 29, 2004.

56. “Helicopter Crash in Okinawa: Local Police Investigation Stymied without Agreement of U.S. Forces,” Tokyo Shimbun, August 15, 2004; “Probe into U.S. Helicopter Crash in Okinawa,” Asahi Shimbun, September 7, 2004. For photos of the crash site and an eyewitness account, see Darrell Y. Hamamoto, “Imperial Bird-Droppings: A First-hand Report on the U.S. Military Helicopter Accident in Okinawa,” JPRI Critique 11, no. 6 (November 2004), http://www.jpri.org/publications/critiques/critique_XI_6.html.

57. “The U.S. Military: Unyielding Vested Interests; Helicopter Crash in Okinawa; the Reason Behind the Refusal of an On-site Inspection,” Tokyo Shimbun, August 20, 2004; “U.S. Military Crash in Okinawa Reignites Debate on SOFA Issue,” Mainichi Shimbun, August 26, 2004.

58. See note 18 above.

59. Asahi Shimbun, August 31, 2004.

60. “Refusal of an On-Site Inspection,” Tokyo Shimbun; “U.S. Military Unwilling to Let Japan Independently Investigate Okinawa Helicopter Crash,” Associated Press, February 18, 2005.

61. “Japan-U.S. SOFA: ’No Longer Meets the Needs of the Times,’ Still Keeps Privileges for U.S. Troops,” Asahi Shimbun, August 10, 2005.

62. Takehiko Kambayashi, “U.S., Japan Agree to Troop Drawdown,” Washington Times, September 24, 2004.

63. “U.S. Copter Crash Attributed to Poor Maintenance,” Asahi Shimbun, October 6, 2004; “Maintenance Error Found to Have Caused U.S. Marine Corps Chopper Crash in Okinawa,” Mainichi Shimbun, February 18, 2005.

64. See Ted Galen Carpenter, “President Bush’s Muddled Policy on Taiwan,” CATO Institute, Foreign Policy Briefing, No. 82, March 15, 2004.

65. See, inter alia, Chalmers Johnson, review of Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita s Gold, by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, London Review of Books, November 20, 2003, pp. 3-6;” ’Rape of Nanjing’ Comic Draws Ire,” Reuters, October 14, 2004; Anthony Faiola, “Scandals Force Out Japanese TV Chief: Critics Say Network Bowed to Pressure to Soften Controversial WWII Program,” Washington Post, January 26, 2005.

66. Norimitsu Onishi, “Ad Man-Turned-Priest Tackles His Hardest Sales Job,” New York Times, February 12, 2005; David Pilling, “Unbowed: Koizumi’s Assertive Japan Is Standing Up Increasingly to China,” Financial Times, February 14, 2005.

67. Yoshibumi Wakamiya, “Zero Fighters in Chongqing and Pearl Harbor; Yasukuni’s War Criminals as Martyrs?” Japan Focus, December 6, 2004, http://japanfocus.org/182.html; Koji Uemura, Mayumi Otani, and Yudai Nakazawa, “Chinese Soccer Fans Jeering at Japanese,” Mainichi Shimbun, August 6, 2004; Jim Yardley, “In Soccer Loss, a Glimpse of China’s Rising Ire at Japan,” New York Times, August 9, 2004.

68. Bryan Bender and Shane Green (Boston Globe), “U.S. Signals Rethink on Bases Overseas,” Sydney Morning Herald, November 27, 2003; and “U.S. Force Realignment: Okinawa’s Burden Alleviation Expected to Be Small,” Nihon Keizai Shimbun, November 27, 2003.

69. “U.S. Military Transformation Plan: Aims to Strengthen Base Functions with Allies,” Asahi Shimbun, August 6, 2004; “U.S. Military Realignment Plan: Host Municipalities Strongly Against U.S. Military Realignment Plan; U.S. Frustrated with Japan’s Elusive Attitude,” Asahi Shimbun, August 7, 2004.

70. “USAFJ’s Yokota HQ May Disappear; ’GHQ’ for USFJ to Be Moved to Zama,” and “Transformation of U.S. Forces in Japan: Less Weight to Be Given to Defense of Japan; Building Strategic Center for Launching Attacks in Middle East and Other Locations,” Tokyo Shimbun, July 29, 2004.

71. Peter Alford, “U.S. Nuclear Carrier Hits War Nerve,” Australian, October 29, 2005; David Pilling, “Japan to Overturn Nuclear Taboo by Having U.S. Carrier Based in Port,” Financial Times, October 29-30,2005; Robert Burns, Associated Press, “Nuclear-Powered Ship to Be Based in Japan,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 2005.

72. “USFJ to be Vested with Own Command Right,” Yomiuri Shimbun, July 20, 2004.

73. “Rumsfeld Cancels Japan Visit Due to Base Row,” Herald News Daily, October 6, 2005, http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/stories/news-0081930.html; David Pilling, “U.S. Anger at Pace of Japan Defense Talks,” Financial Times, October 26, 2005.

74. “World Navies Top 15,” http://www.deagel.com/forums/world-navies-top-15_62.aspx.

75. “Constitution Survey Shows 77% Oppose Changing Article 9,” Japan Times, May 4, 2006.

76. “Realigning U.S. Military in Japan for War Not ’Defense,’” Japan Press Weekly, no. 2454, November 12, 2005.

77. “Government Considering Accepting Transfer of U.S. Army Command to Camp Zama and Flexibly Interpreting ’Far East Clause’ in Security Treaty,” Mainichi Shimbun, October 17, 2004; “U.S. Troops to Be Under Local Command Outside Far East,” Nihon Keizai Shimbun, January 9, 2005; Chalmers Johnson “No Longer the ’Lone’ Superpower: Coming to Terms with China,” JPRI Working Paper, no. 105, March 2005, http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp 105.html.

78. “Defense Agency, Koizumi’s Aides at Odds Over Futenma Relocation,” Nihon Keizai Shimbun, March 21, 2005; Anthony Faiola, “U.S. Agrees to Relocate Marines on Okinawa,” Washington Post, October 27, 2005; “Futenma Relocation Issue: Japan with Proposal for Partial Land-Reclamation Plan at Camp Schwab; Hopes to Resolve Issue with New ’Trump Card,’ but the Key Is Persuading U.S.,” Yomiuri Shimbun, October 13, 2005.

79. “Talks Break Down on USFJ Realignment; Washington Urges Tokyo to Break Impasse under Premier’s Initiative,” Sankei Shimbun, September 30, 2005; “Japan, U.S. at Odds over Futenma Relocation; Defense Agency Raps U.S. Government’s Sea-based Heliport Proposal,” Nihon Keizai Shimbun, October 4, 2005.

80. “Futenma Relocation: U.S. Can’t Wait, Japan Fumbling for a Solution,” Asahi Shimbun, February 25, 2005; “Interview with U.S. Consul General to Okinawa Thomas Reich on the USFJ Realignment Interim Report,” Okinawa Times, November 30, 2005; David McNeill, “U.S. Military Retreats over Japanese Base after Protests by Islanders,” Independent, October 27, 2005; Jeff Schogol, “U.S. Agrees to Move 7,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam; Change Will Be Implemented over the Next Six Years,” Stars & Stripes, October 31, 2005.