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🇯🇵🇺🇸 A foreign follower sent me a video of a Japanese leftist woman who organized a protest over the case involving a woman in Okinawa who was allegedly killed by a U.S. servicemember. She said 130 people showed up and repeatedly said “enough” while listing past crimes committed by U.S. servicemembers in Okinawa. Her political background is not exactly a mystery. In April, the Japanese Communist Party’s newspaper Akahata featured her as a co-representative of a civic group campaigning for former Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki’s reelection. A June article in the Asahi Shimbun, “Why a Graduate Student Protests in Tokyo,” also featured her anti-base activism. She has been openly involved in anti-base activism for years. She also follows mostly left-wing accounts, the protest was covered by left-wing newspapers, and the photos show activists holding political signs—not ordinary Japanese people who simply happened to come out to protest. In Japan, most people are non-political and generally don’t attend protests without being mobilized. Of course, crimes committed by U.S. servicemembers are a serious issue. What concerns me is that such crimes had been declining but appear to have increased again recently. I would understand analyzing the causes and discussing how to prevent future incidents. But claiming that we need to “raise awareness” about an issue already extensively covered by the Japanese mainstream media makes little sense to me. If anything, the awareness that needs to be raised is among Japanese women themselves. The video never made clear what she wanted people overseas to do or what outcome she was seeking. It simply came across as using this tragedy to attack the U.S. and the U.S. military. The U.S. military presence in Okinawa also plays an important role in Japan’s security and defense, especially given the current security environment in East Asia. That reality needs to be taken into account. If the Japanese left wants U.S. bases removed, I would at least like to see them call for Japan to become stronger first—to maximize Japan’s own defense capabilities and ensure its security. Instead, many oppose strengthening Japan’s defense while criticizing those who help defend Japan. In the end, all they are doing is benefiting authoritarian regimes such as China. I don’t know whether they are doing it knowingly or simply don’t understand what they are doing.

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