ARTICLE: "Henoko, Okinawa: Inside the Sit-In"

"Henoko, Okinawa: Inside the Sit-In" is an article published in The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (8-1-10, February 22, 2010) by Yumiko Kikuno with an introduction by Satoko Norimatsu.

The authors describe their visit to:

"Tent Village," where activists were sitting in to protest against the government's plan to build a new US Marine Corps airbase as a "replacement facility" of Futenma Air Station.

For the full article, see: http://www.japanfocus.org/-Kikuno-Yumiko/3306

Yumiko Kikuno is Editor of “U-Yu-Yu,” a community journal based in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, (Japan) and works for the city’s community revitalization project.

Satoko Norimatsu leads various peace initiatives in Vancouver, BC (Canada) and beyond, as Director of Peace Philosophy Centre and Vancouver Save Article 9. She is a featured speaker at various events in The Global Forum on the Future of Nuclear Weapons.