Okinawa as an international monument for peace

摘要

Geopolitically, Okinawa has been dominated by being between china nad Japan. Since World War II, U.S. influence has redefined Okinawa. okinawa is still trapped in the Cold War. It is the central thesis of this apper that it no longer maks sense for the U.S.to pay for any significant U.S.military presence in foreign ountries, and that okinawa serves as one of the last places where a heave U.S. military presence umst be eliminated. Okinawa is small, again part of Japan, and liiking ofr ways to emergy. After world War II, Japan was forced to base U.S.troops, 60