Millennial Speech & Debate Okinawa Withdrawal March pf
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- Background/Reference
- Half of US trrops are in Okinawa
- Okinawa hosts 7% of US military installations in Japan
- The area already returned area is very small
- New Okinawa governor blocking the construction of the Futenma replacement facility
- New governor blocking base relocation on the island
| Background/Reference 2 Okinawa Background 3 Pro 9 Contention I -- Alliance 10 Contention II – Cyber War 15 Contention IV -- Kick Out 20 Contention V -- Deterrence 27 Contention VI – Rotational Presence/China 33 Contention VII– Democracy Credibility 42 Contention VIII – China Encirclement 45 Contention IX – Okinawa-Japan Relations 54 Contention X – Allied Assurances 55 A2: They Should Stay in Okinawa and Go Elsewhere 58 A2: Withdrawal Undermines Allied Assurances 63 Pencil Pushers 69 Okinawa Bases Can Go Elsewhere 70 A2: Withdrawal Causes Japan to Go Nuclear 72 A2: Withdrawal Causes Conventional Rearmament 75 A2: Proposal Politically Unpopular 76 Con 80
Con Contentions 82 Contention I – Asian Credibility 83 Contention II – China 84 Contention III -- Taiwan 87 Contention IV --Korea 88 Contention V – Disaster Response HADR 92 Contention VI—Alliance 96 Contention VII—Gradualism 97 Con China Extensions 99 Access Link Wall (China) 100 Con General Deterrence Extensions
Capability & Will Wall 103 AT: Navy / Air 104 AT: Guam 105 AT: Kadena 106 Uniqueness 107 AT: force Dispersal 109 AT: Kickout Now 110 AT: 35000 Protest 112 AT: Japan China War 113 AT: Deterrence Fails 115 Con Korea Extensions 121 Yes Korea Collapse 122 Impact 124 Con General Deterrence Extensions 127 Links 128 A2: Response Time Link Turn 131 A2: Marines Left Behind 134 A2: We don’t Know the Exact Number of Marines We Need 137 A2: Other Bases in Asia 138 Answers to Pro Advantages 139 A2: Dugongs/Environment 140 A2: Bases Benefit the Okinawa Economy 141 A2: Other Ways to Deter 143 A2: Not Enough Troops in Okinawa to Deter 145 A2: Can Move Bases to Mainland Japan 148 Asia War Impacts 150 Asia Arms Race Impats 157 China Threat 161 Japan-US Alliance Impacts 162 Japan Nuclearization 173
Background/ReferenceOkinawa BackgroundMio Yamada, January 20, 2016, Foreign Affairs, The Battle for Okinawa, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/japan/2016-01-20/battle-okinawa DOA: 2-2-16 Uchina, as Okinawa is called in its native tongue, was the largest island of the archipelagic Kingdom of Ryukyu in the East China Sea. An independent country from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, it played an important role in the maritime trade of East and Southeast Asia. Although it became a tributary state, first to China and then to Japan, it remained largely autonomous and prospered, providing a crucial channel between two kingdoms that otherwise had no formal relationship. Ryukyuans were not considered Japanese; in fact, Japan forbade them from adopting Japanese customs, clothing, or names. This changed in 1879, when Japan’s Meiji government abolished the Ryukyu Kingdom and incorporated it as Okinawa Prefecture. Thus followed a period of subjugation and forced assimilation under imperial Japan, particularly during World War II. About a quarter of Okinawa’s civilian population lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa, a series of skirmishes from April to June 1945 that resulted in Allied victory. Not all the deaths were a result of Allied action. The Japanese military ordered many Okinawans to kill family members and commit suicide rather than risk the shame of capture; Okinawans, indoctrinated to be loyal to the Japanese emperor and to “be more Japanese,” complied. After the war, Okinawa effectively became a U.S. military colony, and the United States updated and expanded military installations around the island. Although the United States purchased much of the land from locals, it also reportedly resorted to coercion and deception in order to buy it, evicting unwilling residents by bulldozer and bayonet. The Okinawans under U.S. occupation had neither political authority nor legal redress for the seizure of property or for crimes committed by service members. If Okinawans hoped that the reversion to Japanese governance in 1972 would decrease the U.S. presence on their lands, hopes were dashed by geopolitical considerations. With fleet anchorage, troop staging, and airfields at a close distance to Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei, the island is key to the United States’ security strategy in the Asia-Pacific. Although Okinawa constitutes less than one percent of Japan’s total land area, it bears the burden of 74 percent of the U.S. military’s overall footprint in the country, including facilities, equipment, and roughly half of the 53,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan. Associated Press, December 25, 2015, Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com/articles/okinawa-sues-japan-government-in-bid-to-stop-u-s-military-base-relocation-1451040155 DOA: 2-2-16
TOKYO—Local authorities on Okinawa filed a lawsuit against the central government Friday in a bid to stop the relocation of a U.S. air base on the southern Japanese island, deepening their decadeslong dispute over the heavy U.S. troop presence there. The Okinawa government said the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism illegally suspended the prefectural governor’s cancellation of approval for reclamation work needed to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a less-populated part of the island called Henoko. “We will do whatever it takes to stop the new Henoko base,” Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga told a news conference in the prefectural capital of Naha. “Okinawa’s argument is legitimate, and I believe that it will be certainly understood.” The central government filed its own lawsuit against Mr. Onaga last month, after he rejected an order from the Land Ministry to reinstate approval, issued by his predecessor, for the land reclamation. The ministry went ahead with the reclamation work. “We’ll proceed with the construction to achieve the planned relocation as soon as possible,” Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said in Tokyo.
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