What Japanese island has U.S. military bases occupying one-fifth of its total land area?
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It is Okinawa.  My Uncle James has been stationed in Okinawa for two years now.  His whole family is waiting for him here in America, and honestly I don't quite understand why he's still there!
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They should go back to Japan. The US gave Japan their islands back after WW2
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Hey! My husband has relatives in Puerto Rico. He's no liberal! How 'bout Bikini Island? Hasn't that been uninhabited since nuclear testing back in the 60s? Let's see if it's ready to be lived on again.
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Japan renounced the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan in the peace treaty, but no recipient was designated. According to authoritative research on international treaty law and the laws of war, under such circumstances the title to Taiwan territory escheats to "the conqueror," which in the post-Napoleonic period is "the principal occupying power."  Article 23 of the peace treaty confirms that the United States is the principal occupying power.
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Japanese won't fight this battle but they do have a good navy and good army. They are planning for something big in the region. They will not give up easily. They are looking to take Taiwan again. The US and the Japanese have a military cooperation thing. The Japanese are going to try to drag the states into the whole thing with China and Taiwan. It is happening already.
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In the central Pacific, the role of the Hawaii-based 7th Air Force had been primarily a defensive one and after the Battle of Midway, the enemy had made no serious effort to advance in that theater. But, by late 1943 as growing U.S. naval strength permitted a more aggressive strategy in the central Pacific, the 7th's aircraft regularly were sent to "soften up" those islands scheduled for amphibious assault or to neutralize enemy forces on those islands of little strategic value which were to be bypassed by Allied forces island-hopping through the Gilbert and Marshall islands. Missions often were flown against targets more than a thousand miles away and operational difficulties proved more of a hazard than enemy opposition. When bases and targets were mere pinpoints in a vast ocean, any appreciable error in navigation meant ditching at sea with a good chance of never being rescued.
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The Aleutian Islands?
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Hear, Hear!!\n\nMy little brother is stationed in Okinawa until March, then signed up for a cycle in Australia before he comes hom in June.  He will probably be stationed in Lejeune for another year after that.\n\nSemper Fi!!
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The US got rights to military bases in Newfoundland and in the Caribbean.
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I believe that is Okinotori Island also known as Parece Vela. It's a tiny Island claimed by the Japanese as their territory but disputed by the Chinese.
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In the Pacific between Wake Island and Hawaii. We have a large B52 Airforce base there.
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This is from memory so it's probably not complete, sorry.\nEngland, Spain, Barbary Coast States, Germany, Austria Hungary, Italy, Japan, North Viet Nam, Iraq.\n\nNorth Korea (US was part of UN forces).
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I miss Okinawa!  I saw your photo album. It helped me to remember a bit of Okinawa.  That was the nicest thing I've seen in months.  I never got to go to mainland or the PI.  Check my profile.  You would make an interesting friend!\n\n\nAaarrdaaaGaatO\nAragato?\nThank you.
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Where in Japan exactly?\n\nThere's an SDA Church in Okinawa.
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Study your history, not the media...  One factor which helped make the decision to use the Atomic (not nuclear) bomb was the Invasion of Okinawa in April 1945.  Okinawa was the first island in the chain of islands leading to the mainland Japan.  12,000 US troops were killed and 36,000 US troops were wounded.  Using this model it was estimated that an invasion of the mainland would have cost 1 million US casualties...
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Korea\nVietnam\nDomnican Republic\nIraq\n\nThis site has a list of operations by the US Armed Forces before and after WW II:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_actions_by_or_within_the_United_States
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Yes.  There were Japanese internment camps during WWII.  they were housed in Rohwer \nhttp://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/tsang/INDEX11.HTM \nand in Jerome \nhttp://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/tsang/INDEX12.HTM  \n\nJerome is a lovely town.  Population 49.  I drove through it on my way to Louisiana once.