Japanese City Rejects U.S. Navy Relocation

[Brett327]

The treaty can be abrogated anytime. The surrent SOFA is an addition/change to the 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security as a change/revision to the 1952 Treaty of Peace With Japan (Treaty of San Francisco). As it stands now, the US is not an occupation force, Japan has sovereign rights over its territory, and both sides have the option of leaving at any time with the withdrawal being effective one year from the decision. The SanFran treaty put the Ryukyu chain (including Okinawa) under US control, but they were given back in 1972.

The Japanese aren't going to ask us to go anywhere. In the end they'd rather have our technology defending them than a. spend their own economy's money on it, and b. face some neighboring countries with looooong memories alone.

Thank you - timely as ever. There are the facts to back up what many of us have been trying to convey.

Brett

 

[Goober]

Thank you - timely as ever. There are the facts to back up what many of us have been trying to convey.

Brett

Foreign policy classes, bro. Who says everything has to be engineering? Now somebody go design me a better weapon system - I'll decide how to use it.