Okinawa henkan to nichibei anpo taisei (The Reversion of Okinawa and the Japan-US Security Alliance)
Okinawa henkan to nichibei anpo taisei (The Reversion of Okinawa and the Japan-US Security Alliance)
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Okinawa henkan to nichibei anpo taisei(冲绳的回归和日美安保同盟)
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10.1093/ssjj/jyu037
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2015
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Yasuko Kouno
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作者:
Yasuko Kouno
This book addresses two key questions. The first of these is why and how Japan and the US reached agreement in November 1969 in negotiations over the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty. The other question concerns the meaning of the reversion in the broader history of the US–Japan security alliance. The book’s original contribution lies primarily in its response to the first question, a response which comprises political process analysis of back-channel negotiations and sheds light on the nature of these channels and their role in the diplomatic process. Firstly, the author Nakashima examines the lead-up to the Joint Communiqué issued by Japanese Prime Minister Satō and American President Johnson in 1967, describing how a back channel established by Satō was used by Wakaizumi Kei (Satō’s personal emissary) to reach an agreement with Special Assistant to the President WW Rostow that the reversion issue was to be determined ‘within a few years’. This exact wording was included in the Joint Communiqué. Nakashima’s assessment of Satō’s initiative in these discussions is thus more positive than previous studies. Nakashima goes on to examine several issues in regard to the actual reversion agreement of 1969. The key point of contention in the negotiations was the handling of the ‘prior consultation’system introduced at the time of the renewal of the Security Treaty in 1960. This system placed restrictions on US military forces operating on Japanese territory. At the time of the 1960 renewal, however, the Security Treaty did not apply to Okinawa, which was still under US administration, and the US military was thus able to use its bases on Okinawa free from the restrictions that applied to mainland bases under the terms of the treaty. When it came to negotiating the reversion in 1969, the Japanese government sought to have the prior consultation system apply correspondingly to post-reversion Okinawa, which, it argued, must be ‘on par with mainland Japan’. There were, however, two problems in applying the prior consultation system to the Okinawan bases. The first was that such an application would restrict free use of the bases; in other words, it© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the University of Tokyo.