March 30, 2013
The Japanese Communist Party Okinawa Prefectural Committee on March 29 made representations to the Okinawa Defense Bureau in protest against U.S. marines intruding into public areas during a training drill.
In the afternoon of March 26, a group of U.S. marines trespassed upon a promenade within the site of an environmental education center in Kunigami Village, after getting off a U.S. Osprey transport aircraft in a training field in the northern part of Okinawa’s main island. The center, which has accommodations as well, is located in a public park where a variety of animals and plants are found.
Maesato Tamotsu, a standing committee member of the party’s prefectural committee, said, “It is totally unacceptable for U.S. marines on training exercises to enter public properties outside their designated training areas.”
A defense bureau official said, “We made a request to the Marine Corps to prevent a recurrence of such acts. The U.S. side expressed its regret over frightening local residents.”
Feature Article:
> Crimes by US Servicemen
In the afternoon of March 26, a group of U.S. marines trespassed upon a promenade within the site of an environmental education center in Kunigami Village, after getting off a U.S. Osprey transport aircraft in a training field in the northern part of Okinawa’s main island. The center, which has accommodations as well, is located in a public park where a variety of animals and plants are found.
Maesato Tamotsu, a standing committee member of the party’s prefectural committee, said, “It is totally unacceptable for U.S. marines on training exercises to enter public properties outside their designated training areas.”
A defense bureau official said, “We made a request to the Marine Corps to prevent a recurrence of such acts. The U.S. side expressed its regret over frightening local residents.”
Feature Article:
> Crimes by US Servicemen
