Social Sciences
It's not a task for the faint-hearted, but Asia Policy Point's very own Bill Brooks has grasped the many tangled threads of the Futenma saga and unravelled them to find what lies at the core: a knot of conflicting demands between nations, capital city and province, and civilians and the military.
Bill's landmark paper for SAIS on the two sets of negotiations to relocate Futenma Air Station in Okinawa is a must read for it not only reveals how contentious and divisive the talks were, even to the point of near crisis situations, but also why the two agreements were never implemented.
Bill also has aptly compared the past attempts to resolve the Futenma issue with the current efforts of the Hatoyama administration, concluding that those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
THE POLITICS OF THE FUTENMA BASE ISSUE IN OKINAWA: RELOCATION NEGOTIATIONS IN 1995-1997, 2005-2006
By William L. Brooks
(Asia-Pacific Policy Papers Series, Reischauer Center, SAIS Johns Hopkins University, May 2010, 109 pages)
- Stress Test For The Alliance
Edwin O. ReischauerCenter for East Asian Studies Seminar Series Stress Test for the Alliance under the Democratic Party of Japan, 2009-2012 Professor William L. BrooksAPP Senior Fellow Adjunct Professor, Japan StudiesEdwin O. Reischauer Center...
- Brooks To Talk November 22 In Tokyo
THE FUTENMA ISSUE - AN UPDATE. 11/22, 7:00-9:00pm, Tokyo, Japan. Sponsor: Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS), Temple University Japan Campus. Speakers: Dr. William L. Brooks, APP Senior Fellow, former head of Media Analysis & Translation,...
- Our Own Bill Brooks In Tokyo
THE POLITICS OF BASE RELOCATION IN OKINAWA: THE FUTENMA NEGOTIATIONS, 1995-97, 2005-6. 7/1, 7:00pm, Tokyo. Sponsor: Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan. Speaker: William Brooks, Senior Fellow, Asia Policy Point and Senior...
- Brooks To Talk May 17 On Okinawa Base Politics
The Politics of Base Relocation in Okinawa The Futenma MCAS Negotiations 1995-97 and 2005-06 With Dr. William L. BrooksProfessorial lecturer in the SAIS Japan Studies Program and APP Senior Fellow May 17, 20104:30 PM - 6:00...
- Bureaucrat Points To Pork For Futenma Upset
Interviewed in the January 2010 issue of the monthly literary journal Chuokoron, former Vice Minister of Defense Takemasa Moriya (pictured) reveals much about the lengthy negotiations between the United States and Japan to close and relocate the Marine...
Social Sciences
Slicing through the Gordonian knot of Futenma, one thread at a time
Bill's landmark paper for SAIS on the two sets of negotiations to relocate Futenma Air Station in Okinawa is a must read for it not only reveals how contentious and divisive the talks were, even to the point of near crisis situations, but also why the two agreements were never implemented.
Bill also has aptly compared the past attempts to resolve the Futenma issue with the current efforts of the Hatoyama administration, concluding that those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
THE POLITICS OF THE FUTENMA BASE ISSUE IN OKINAWA: RELOCATION NEGOTIATIONS IN 1995-1997, 2005-2006
By William L. Brooks
(Asia-Pacific Policy Papers Series, Reischauer Center, SAIS Johns Hopkins University, May 2010, 109 pages)
- Stress Test For The Alliance
Edwin O. ReischauerCenter for East Asian Studies Seminar Series Stress Test for the Alliance under the Democratic Party of Japan, 2009-2012 Professor William L. BrooksAPP Senior Fellow Adjunct Professor, Japan StudiesEdwin O. Reischauer Center...
- Brooks To Talk November 22 In Tokyo
THE FUTENMA ISSUE - AN UPDATE. 11/22, 7:00-9:00pm, Tokyo, Japan. Sponsor: Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS), Temple University Japan Campus. Speakers: Dr. William L. Brooks, APP Senior Fellow, former head of Media Analysis & Translation,...
- Our Own Bill Brooks In Tokyo
THE POLITICS OF BASE RELOCATION IN OKINAWA: THE FUTENMA NEGOTIATIONS, 1995-97, 2005-6. 7/1, 7:00pm, Tokyo. Sponsor: Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan. Speaker: William Brooks, Senior Fellow, Asia Policy Point and Senior...
- Brooks To Talk May 17 On Okinawa Base Politics
The Politics of Base Relocation in Okinawa The Futenma MCAS Negotiations 1995-97 and 2005-06 With Dr. William L. BrooksProfessorial lecturer in the SAIS Japan Studies Program and APP Senior Fellow May 17, 20104:30 PM - 6:00...
- Bureaucrat Points To Pork For Futenma Upset
Interviewed in the January 2010 issue of the monthly literary journal Chuokoron, former Vice Minister of Defense Takemasa Moriya (pictured) reveals much about the lengthy negotiations between the United States and Japan to close and relocate the Marine...