Protecting the right to live peacefully: a report from Takae, Okinawa
Protecting the right to live peacefully: a report from Takae, Okinawa
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保护和平生活的权利：来自冲绳高江的报告
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10.1080/14781158.2010.510273
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2010
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Yasushi Ikeo
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Akihiro;Yasushi Ikeo
Takae居民反对美军在他们所在地区建造直升机停机坪的24小时静坐抗议活动一直持续到今天。计划中的直升机停机坪将建在Takae周围，这是一个靠近美国海军陆战队丛林作战训练中心(北方训练区)的地区，占地7500公顷。Takae为美军提供了最好的生存技能训练环境。该训练中心是世界上唯一的美国海军陆战队训练中心。自2007年7月2日以来，静坐抗议者一直强烈要求停止建造直升机停机坪；他们的主要反对意见是，这些停机坪的存在将扰乱Takae当地居民的和平生活。尽管没有满足法律要求，例如获得环境影响评估，但军事基础设施的建设已经开始。Takae位于冲绳县库尼加姆炮区一个名为Higashi-Son的小村庄北部。从冲绳首府那霸坐公交车需要三个多小时。高海有大约160人口，其中20%的人口是初中及以下的儿童。当地人为Takae美丽的亚热带环境感到非常自豪，并将他们的邻居称为东方加拉帕戈斯，或Yanbaru，在当地冲绳方言中，意思是冲绳北部的山脉和森林地区。亚热带环境被认为是当地几种鸟类、爬行动物和哺乳动物的重要栖息地，包括冲绳啄木鸟和冲绳铁路。根据世界自然基金会日本分会的说法，该地区是4000多种野生动物的栖息地，其中11种本土动物和12种本土植物是独一无二的，因此在世界其他任何地方都找不到。1高惠当地环保团体的一位成员的话让我们对该地区居民的日常生活有了一个深刻的了解：自古以来，高海人一直过着朴素的生活方式，与自然和谐相处，紧挨着连接山脉和海洋的河流。他们抓鱼和交换蔬菜。坐在河岸上，聆听大自然的力量，闪耀着美丽的光芒。2.
The round-the-clock sit-in protest by the Takae residents against the construction of US military helipads in their area continues to this day. The planned helipads are to be built around Takae, an area that is close to the US Marine Corps’ Jungle Warfare Training Center (the Northern Training Area), which covers 7500 hectares. Takae provides the best environment for training the US military in survival skills. The training center is the only US Marine training center of its kind in the world. Since 2 July 2007, the sit-in protesters have been strongly demanding that the construction of the helipads be stopped; their primary objection is that the presence of these helipads will disrupt the peaceful life of Takae’s local residents. The construction of the military infrastructure has begun despite the non-fulfillment of legal requirements, such as obtaining an environmental impact assessment. Takae is located in the northern part of a tiny village called Higashi-son in the Kunigami-gun area of Okinawa Prefecture. It takes more than three hours by bus to get there from Naha, the capital of Okinawa. Takae has a population of around one hundred and sixty, and 20% of the population consists of children of junior high school age or under. The local people are very proud of Takae’s beautiful, subtropical environment and call their neighborhood the ‘oriental Galapagos’, or yanbaru, which, in the local Okinawan dialect, means the region of mountains and forests in northern Okinawa. The subtropical environment is recognized as an important habitat for several local species of birds, reptiles, and mammals, including the Okinawa woodpecker and the Okinawa rail. According to WWF Japan, the area serves as the habitat for more than four thousand wildlife species, of which 11 indigenous animals and 12 indigenous plants are unique and thus cannot be found anywhere else in the world. 1 The following quotation from a member of Takae’s local environmental protection group gives us an insight into the daily lives of the inhabitants of the district:From olden times the people of Takae have lived a modest lifestyle, in tune with nature, next to the river which connects the mountains with the ocean. They catch fish and exchange vegetables... sitting on the riverbank and listening to the power of nature in all its iridescent beauty. 2