{"id":44479,"date":"2022-05-14T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/14\/the-japanese-hunger-striker-demanding-an-end-to-us-bases-in-okinawa"},"modified":"2022-05-14T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T00:00:46","slug":"the-japanese-hunger-striker-demanding-an-end-to-us-bases-in-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44479","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese hunger striker demanding an end to US bases in Okinawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As island prepares to mark 50 years since Okinawa was returned to Japanese sovereignty, Jinshiro Motoyama is in no mood to celebrate<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Jinshiro Motoyama placed a banner outside the office of Japan\u2019s prime minister, sat on a folding chair, and stopped eating. It was a dramatic gesture, but the 30-year-old activist believes desperate measures are needed to end the long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/feb\/11\/us-envoy-okinawa-dispute-caroline-kennedy\">US military presence<\/a> in his birthplace, Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>Located roughly 1,000 miles south of Tokyo in the East China Sea, Okinawa is a speck in the ocean that comprises 0.6% of Japan\u2019s total land area but hosts about 70% of the US\u2019s military bases in Japan and more than half of its 47,000 troops.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/14\/the-japanese-hunger-striker-demanding-an-end-to-us-bases-in-okinawa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As island prepares to mark 50 years since Okinawa was returned to Japanese sovereignty, Jinshiro Motoyama is in no mood to celebrateEarlier this week, Jinshiro Motoyama placed a banner outside the office of Japan\u2019s prime minister, sat on a folding chai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,220,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-second-world-war","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44480,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44479\/revisions\/44480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}