Okinawa is in a strategic location between China and North America. Realistic solutions to the inexcusable behaviour of the American base personnel should start from a realistic basis, not on ridiculous assertions that this particular base is redundant, nor on the irrelevant basis of the locals not wanting it there.
So long as they have a legal right to be there - which they do, agreements signed under duress or not - the Okinawans had better think of other ways to curb the behaviour of the base personnel. Maybe try the Cuban solution - utter isolation of the base from the rest of the island.
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