'저는 그들의 땅을 지키기 위하여 싸웠던 인디안들의 이야기를 기억합니다. 백인들이 그들의 신성한 숲에 도로를 만들기 위하여 나무들을 잘랐습니다. 매일밤 인디안들이 나가서 백인들이 만든 그 길을 해체하면 그 다음 날 백인들이 와서 도로를 다시 짓곤 했습니다. 한동안 그 것이 반복되었습니다. 그러던 어느날, 숲에서 가장 큰 나무가 백인들이 일할 동안 그들 머리 위로 떨어져 말과 마차들을 파괴하고 그들 중 몇몇을 죽였습니다. 그러자 백인들은 떠났고 결코 다시 오지 않았습니다….' (브루스 개그논)





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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Text Fwd: Reischauer Saw US Forces' Okinawa-to Guam Move Theoretically Possible

* Text informed by Martha Duenas on Feb. 19, 2011

The Mainichi Daily News
Reischauer Saw US Forces' Okinawa-to Guam Move Theoretically Possible
February 19, 2011

Tokyo(Kyodo) - Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer told a Japanese government official in 1967 that relocating all U.S. military facilities in Okinawa to Guam was theoretically possible, declassified Japanese diplomatic documents showed Friday.

Reischauer also told the Japanese officials that the U.S. military had estimated the cost for the relocation at $3 billion to $4 billion, showed the documents declassified by the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

Reischauer made the comment during a meeting with a Japanese diplomat in Boston on April 14, 1967, eight months after leaving the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, according to a top-secret cable sent the following day to the Japanese Foreign Ministry from the Japanese Embassy in Washington.

The document quoted Reischauer as saying that Japan had enjoyed a "free ride" in its national security thanks to U.S. defense efforts, a comment taken as speaking for some U.S. lawmakers who were dissatisfied with Tokyo and trying to prod Japan to take a more active role in its national defense.

In 2006, Japan and the United States reached an agreement on the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan. Under the accord, the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan will be relocated to the coastal area of Nago by 2014. The deal also includes the transfer of around 8,000 Marines to Guam from Okinawa.

Reischauer (1910-1990), who is known to be an expert of history and culture of Japan at Harvard University, served as U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1961 through 1966.

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