Okinawan people had appealed "Return Okinawa without include nuclear
weapons". When Okinawa was reversed, Japanese Government argued
that this reversion was without nuclear weapons. In this page, we'll see
"without nuclear weapons" argument.
1. Meaning of "without nuclear weapon"
"Reversion without nuclear weapons" was advocated by the
Japanese Government to reply Okinawa Prefecture's appeal, "Make
Okinawa without nuclear" this was based on "Okinawa
Prefecture's Peace and Antinuclear Weapons Declaration",
in 1995. Nuclear weapons have an special meaning for Japan, the only
country that has been attacked by nuclear weapons in the world.
2. The Japanese Government's argument and real result
A. The Japanese Government's argument
The Japanese Government insisted that reversion without include nuclear
weapons was realized based on the following. This is a part of the
announcement by Japanese Prime Minister Sato and the United
States President Nixon, in 1969.
Prime Minister explained in detail that Japanese's special
emotions and Japanese Government's policy to be based on this. Then
President showed deep understanding, and promised positively to
revise Okinawa not to contradict this Japanese policy and not
to injure U.S. Government's standing to be based on advance consultation
of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty.
Please note the underlined part. Why was this unnecessary part(in
the context) added? At that time, Mr. Johnson, the Secretary of State
said it was interpreted as "the U.S. Government has the right
of consulting with the Japanese Government about to bring nuclear
weapons when the U.S. Government thinks it's necessary.
B. The hidden minutes
Recently, Mr. Kei Wakabayashi who was active as Sato Prime Minister
Sato's secret messenger presented a book named "Tasaku Nakarishiwo
Shinzemuto Hossu" "I wanted to believe there was no other
plan". In this book, he wrote he consulted with Mr. kissinger,
then Presidential aide, and took the confidential minutes on bringing
nuclear weapons, and then both heads signed the agreement in the small
room next to the Oval Office under the pretext of seeing jewely.
3. Was "Without nuclear weapons" carried out?
With the information above, we cannot conclude that
Okinawa was reverted without nuclear weapons. However it seems that
the Japanese government did not tell the whole story to Okinawa when
the government officially announced the reversion without nuclear
weapons.
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