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updated 98.11.25 since97.3.18

Our second opinion ad. on N.Y.Times dated Nov. 23rd.

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'98 The Opinion Ad. Movement on American News paper

May,16th We had a meeting for preparing the next opinion ad. ▼ July, 28th We gave a press conference at Okinawa. ex-marine Mr.Allen Nelson Most of the American citizens does not know anything about the prpblem caused by U.S.bases in Japan. 　　 beautiful sea beautiful mountain life is the most precious thing 　　　If we had stood up earlier a little..... While we were very busy about everyday life, a little giri was depressed with fear and sorrow.... Suzuyo Takazato Women against MIlitary Bases and Troops after the sexual assault to the little girl by three marine corps 3 years ago

Draft of our ad. '98 Draft1 Draft2 Please feel free to give us your opinions for our 2nd ad. or our movement. yufukiri@fat.coara.or.jp 【Goal of Donation】 　　　9,000,000 YEN We will inform what is happend in Japan around the US bases on our ad.. Then we will welcome the opinions from US citizens who read our ad.. We will translate all of the opinions from America and inform Jaoanese citizens what American are feeling and thinking about this problem. The Good Bye US Marines NEWS ■Representative of this project Okinawa　Yoichi Iha　 assemblyman in Okinawa　 　　　　　tel&fax 81-98-870-2123 　　　　　Suzuyo Takazato 　assemblywoman in Okinawa Hiroshima　Ichiro Yuasa Kanagawa 　Kazuhiko Tamaki（Catch Peace） Kumamoto　Koji Kanda Oita　　　　 Akira Satoh Japan Coalition on the US Military Bases 【office】 tel＆fax 81-977-85-5003 1525-12 Kawakami, Yufuin-machi Oita-gun , Oita-ken 879-51, Japan

From Association
for Preventing Nago Offshore Base Construction

We ran the first advertisement
in the New York Times on May 30th, 1997.

		The Purpose of this movement The voice of the American specialists asking for removal of US Marines
		ad. text in English ad. text in Japanese about the photo revision of data
		Response from the US citizens after the May 30th ad. in English １〜３０・31〜52 letters in Japanese １〜３０・３１〜５２ letters
		A letter from the of Okinawa governor, Ota

We sent mails or e-mails to American citizens who responded to our advetisement.(Feb.12th)

Please give us your opinions & thoughts about U.S.bases in Japan, or our advertizement. Post your ideas on our bulletin board

Limited and sometimes biased information gives people an unbalanced perspective.

It is important to make efforts
towards understanding each other.
Let's keep in touch and share our opinions.
We should be open to critical opinions.

Responsible Manager Akira Sato

To see the responces from Americans for our apeal, most of the people who are against our opinion -the removal of U.S. Marines from Japan- refered to the cruelty of Japanese armies during the World War II or the surprise attack at Pearl harbor, and most of them said "Make an apology for the fact that Japanese have done in the past, as well as understanding more about it.". Certainly, we must say there is a big difference of understanding the war between Japanese and American. In fact, we didn't touch on the war in our last apeal at all. however, it is true that most of us do hope the peace, so we did apeal our opinion on the newspaper. It may be natural that many of negative responces were sent by veterans and Marine concerned. Regarding what they fought for, it seemed that the apeal denied the cause of participation in the war for them.

【For further exchange between U.S. and Japanese citizens】

■Peace Suitors at TOKYO　　http://www.jca.ax.apc.org/peace-st/index.html

■Rimpeace　　
http://www.rimpeace.or.jp/erp/eindex.html

■Blue Peace!

http://library.advanced.org/19981/index-light-e.shtml
■Protest Against 3 US Military Servicemen Raping a 12 yr Old School Girl
http://www.walrus.com/~dawei/index.html
http://www.walrus.com/~dawei/related-links.html

■Base 　
http://www.well.com/user/nobumasa/base.html

Thank you for sending us 12 excellent pieces of Logo Marks for this project

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The Office of Japan Coalition on the U.S. Military Bases
　Kawakami1525-12
Yufuin-cho, 879-51 Oita,JAPAN
　（TEL&FAX)　81-977-85-5003　（Machiko Matsumura、Ryuji Urata）
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