Denny in the News: 8 September 2021
“For bereaved families nationwide, the search goes on.” Soil containing human remains to be used as landfill in the plan to move the US military airfield to Henoko. Exactly 76 years had passed on 7 September since the former Japanese Army publicly signed the formal surrender documents, leaving altogether over 200,000 dead Americans and Japanese in the Okinawa campaign. Currently, with the US Military Futenma Airfield (Ginowan in Okinawa Prefecture) being moved to the coastal region of Henoko in the city of Nago, there is a plan to procure soil for landfill from the southern part of the island of Okinawa, the scene of ferocious battles. Fearing a mixing of the remains of buried soldiers and civilians, in regional assemblies across the nation, a movement is spreading to adopt resolutions in opposition. The Hyogo headquarters of the Okinawa Prefectural People's Association in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, submitted an appeal to both the government and Okinawa Prefecture op...