Okinawa, which sits closer to China than to Japan's main islands, is the focus of U.S. and Japanese efforts to beef up defenses in Japan's southwest islands.
Marines of the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment practice with .50-caliber machine guns on a firing range on Okinawa.
Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former Marine colonel, says that some military planners think"we ought to just focus on China and step back from these other global commitments." But, as the war in Ukraine has demonstrated, he argues,"when you look at the real world, that's just not possible."
Fewer survivors of the WWII Battle of Okinawa, in which nearly a third of the island's population perished, are around to tell their stories.70% of Okinawans feel their prefecture shoulders an unfair proportion of the burden of hosting U.S. military bases. But the ranks of anti-base protesters are aging and thinning.
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