I am a wanna-be Okinawan whois married to a lovely Ryukyuan lady and I have worked for the Ryukyu Islands for the past 62 years.
I made some rambling remarks about the Cairo ccords and how the Islands were taken from the Japanese and how they managed to “steal” it back, but I would like to be a little more lucid reference
Independence for the Ryukyu Islands. Click on the below story;
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20071008a2.html

I can be contacted at mwsteele@neteze.com

First, We win WWII and the Japanese sgned the INCONDITIONAL Potsdam Surrender Papers. The Potsdam Papers separated Yhr Ryukyu Islands from Japan as per the Cairo Accprds of 1943 and FDR brought this about before he died.

The Ryukyuan people were once more in charge of their islands, but the Japanese were hot to steal it back and should you wonder at this, I suggest you put ther name Takichi Nishiyama into Goggle and read how this man “spilled the beans” on just how Japan was going to take back the Ryukyu Islands in spite of the fact that the Surrender Papers were labeled as “UNCONDITIONAL, yet JAPAN phoneyrd up a reversion and bought the Ryukyu Islands back

ALL THIS IS VERY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Lately the Japanese remover 8000 Marines from Okinawa and replaced them with a like amount of Self Defense Forces and they now share the Command with the Americans on Kadena Air Base and they are now the 2nd largest military in Asia with the best of our Military equipment/ and candidly I do not trust the Japanese today anymore than I did 62 plus years ago

Today Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Okinawa are speaking of Independence and I hope it comes to pass, but I would also like to see our military return to the States from all over the world.

I have very little use for the Self Defense Forces that are rapidly being morphed into what will once again be the Imperial Japanese Military. The Japnese people have had 62 plus years of Peaceful existence, but it appears the PM wants to change the Peace Constitution.(Do away with Article 9.)

Does anyone know of any inexpensive lodging in Okinawa. We would like to rent a place for the duration of our visit. The internet hasn’t been much help.

Does anyone know anything about this place? http://www.city.okinawa.okinawa.jp/site/view/contview.jsp?cateid=131&id=2214&page=4

Robert McLain

CLEANING UP IN EL PUERTITO
Adeje councillor for the Environment Jesus Alvarez Marichal has announced that the clean up operation of the sea bed in El Puertito de Adeje was a great success.

The volunteers who cooperated in the operation collected a tonne less of rubbish than last year which Marichal interpreted as a sign of the increase in awareness of the local population. Free Shark España, The Ocean Dream Factory, Live Arico, Project Aware, Padi, Vai Moana and the town hall of Adeje cooperated in the operation which formed part of the “Adeje vive Adeje convive” project to encourage cooperation and tolerance between the residents of the borough.
Five volunteers cleaned up the sand on the beach while thirty two divers took care of the depths.
After cleaning up the sea bed three Tortugas caretta caretta otherwise known as the tortuga boba, which had been being treated in the Tahonilla Wildlife Rescue Centre in La Laguna , were set free off the coast of El Puertito.