Dear People of the World (formerly Dear Americans)

An osprey (helo-plane type flying vehicle) crashed on the coast of Nago city, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Dec 13. A major accident finally occurred 4 years after deployment in Okinawa. That was in fact, anticipated 4 years ago. Read this post.

The crash site was near the US Marine Camp Schwab. The osprey seemed trying to land there after its propeller was damaged while inflight refueling training and had lost control of it. The accident was classified as Class A, highest rank, loss amount was more than 80 million US $. The osprey was torn apart to more than 4 pieces.

Top ranking official of US military stationed in Okinawa, named Nicolson, said Okinawans should appreciate pilots had avoided landing on nearby ground so no civilian casualty was caused. That comment outraged Okinawans who have been opposed to osprey deployment for a long time because of defective structure of the vehicle. Osprey cause accidents 3 times more frequent than other helicoptors. That rate has not changed since it was first introduced in US Marine more than 10 years ago.   

The news was reported and broadcasted nationwide. Not only Okinawa locals but Japanese citizens in general felt very distrustful of the U.S. army and the U.S government.

This crash accident is related to ongoing construction of new runways in U.S. Marine Camp Schwab site. A hundred ospreys will be deployed there after completion of the runways by landfilling the sea.

Okinawa governor, Onaga once cancelled landfill permit which was signed by a former governor but this month a week after the accident, Japan's Supreme Court made a ruling that Onaga's cancellation was illegal. Then he revived landfill permit but insists on his firm determination of stopping the construction by whatever method he could use. He still holds many authorities to do that.

Japan's central government and U.S. government do not mind local protest and proceed construction.

What will happen next year? The construction will never be done but distrutst and grudge will grow.

More news related to this construction and osprey will come up. US government might think it is a small matter in the far east. Actually this news is not widely reported in US.  

As I described in this blog, more Japanese are learning US military stationed in Japan no longer functions as defense. It is just for two nations' political or military establishment who want to maintain US-Japan defense treaty system.

At Japan's considerate citizen and Okinawa local level, US is just losing trust and friends by this issue.

US seemed very near-sighted. Maybe Japan is not very important any longer since China has become bigger economic power. But China cannot share the same democratic values with US like Japan does in East Asian region. Japan is necessary as bypass between US and China in many occasions.

But it is time that Japan diverts from friendship with America.

Okinawa might turn to be another Pearl Harbor between two nations.

Things might change if newly elected President Donald Trump alters the course. He may do so since he insisted on withdrawing US troops from Japan during the election campaign. He may find Okinawa bases are nothing but budget wasting place.

I am not very sure but he seems to know Japan very well since he has been to Japan many times as a businessman. One time he claimed Japan can defend itself like it did in the past like occupying China and ruled Korean peninsular. He looked not so intelligent but very clever and somehow very knowledgeable.

As for this Okinawa matter, Trump might be able to handle more wisely than Obama and Clinton (as Secretary of State) has done up to this point.

Not totally bad news for all of us in the world.

For Americans it is a great chance to liberate from establishment politics and two lookalike-party system.

For Japan, liberate from Americanism and U.S. military presence, especailly good for Okinawa island. He promised no more TPP and withdrawing US troops from bases in Japan. I like that since I have been engaged in protest activities against US military base presence including nuclear aircraft carrier in Yokosuka and new marine base construction in Okinawa. Please check posts in nuclear aircraft carrier and Okinawa tags. But above all, greatest thing is that we no longer see America as superpower or role model in the sense that such a man was elected as President.

So do people of the world.

America has great things such as Hollywood films, Apple Ipads, Hilton Hotels and so on. I got college education in America 2 decades ago. It was an excellent experience and that is why I have good command of English and write posts like here.

But at the same time I learnt America is not a role model for the world. America is not a model society. I remember a Japanese woman who was married to American man and settled in California, said so. She always said she wanted to go back to Japan. She and I attended the same college in Northern California.

Her boyfriend, who she married later was like Trump. He could be friend to Japanese but not to Blacks and Chinese.

It is rooted from his experience in his highschoolhood in San Francisco, where most of students were Blacks and Chinese, which made him minority in school. He was bullied and decided to quit the school and instead study at home and entered college without high school diploma.

White people around me seemed non-racist but in fact were racist when they could speak honestly. Books on IQ difference between whites and Blacks became best selling, which describes whites are more intelligent than Blacks not by education but gene.

Black people were offended and said they were still at war even after civil rights act era.

Some of Black people were kind of militant complainer, who use their race as a card to promote themselves. Mexican undocumented immigrants caused problems such as burgarly and theft. My college dormitory roommate often shouted "Fucking minorities." Poor young Latino had several children although they could earn very small income.

America is free and multi-national society. That is why such things happen.

Not just economy but complexity of the society drove such phenomenon.

America is still a great nation but not a role model which every nation should follow suit.  

The world leant that thanks to Donal Trump.

 

P.S. Did you know in Japan, name "Trump" is used as a noun to indicate 52 Cards like 1 through 10 and Jack, Queen, King of Diamond, Klover, Spade, and Heart plus a Joker, which coincides with Mr. Trump's business.

So when we say "let's play Trump" it means "let's play cards"?

Why not play this "Trump"?