Okinawa prefecture have translated Notice of Revocation into Englesh

Notice of Revocation of Approval for Reclamation of Public Waters

https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/site/chijiko/henoko/documents/noticeofrevocationofapprovalforreclamationofpublicwaters.pdf

Grounds for revocation

https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/site/chijiko/henoko/documents/appendix.pdf

Take Action: STOP the Landfill Work in Okinawa

The resolution on new base construction project at Henoko in Okinawa that we submitted to - and was approved overwhelmingly by - the Saint Paul Convention has now been finally approved in the referendum of all members (591 to 5). Now is the time to put it to work. It is written as an appeal to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of that project. Last year’s GAO report on the Marines in the Asia-Pacific contained veiled criticisms of the Henoko project, so there is a real possibility that they might take this up big time.

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A petition to "Stop the landfill of Henoko/Oura Bay until a referendum can be held in Okinawa" has been posted on the petition page of White House. Although it is quite challenging to collect 100,000 signatures within 30 days, which is required to get attention of the administration, it will still be a good way to bring attention to Okinawa by American voters.
Please support this petition and spread the word. This takes less than one minute to do.

Sign the Petition

For more background on the situation at Okinawa and the ongoing protests, check out Moé Yonamine's recent article in Common Dreams, Stand with Okinawa. Below is a brief excerpt:

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Petition to Drop All Charges Against Arrested Okinawa Anti-Bases Activists

Petition to Drop All Charges Against Arrested Okinawa Anti-Bases Activists

As a citizen of the world and an advocate for peace and people’s human and democratic rights, I demand that all charges against Hiroji Yamashiro, and his co-defendants, Hiroshi Inaba and Atsuhiro Soeda, be dropped and all attempts to silence the people of Okinawa in their just quest to rid their homeland of the many U.S. military bases be stopped.

Petition site is here
Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases

Save Japan’s Richest Biodiversity and the Dugong!

Save Japan’s Richest Biodiversity and the Dugong! 　Call for Implementation of IUCN Recommendations and Resolution



For the last 20 years, the Japanese and U.S. governments have been pushing a controversial plan to construct a large U.S. military air base in the area of Henoko and Oura Bay, Okinawa, Japan. In July 2014, the Japanese government began drilling surveys and preparatory works based upon the conclusion of its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that the base will have “no impact” on the environment.　The Japanese high court then intervened, and all the survey and construction works have been halted since March 2016 though the Japanese government is trying to resume them.

It is injudicious that the governments have chosen the area as the site for the base construction. The area is one of the richest biodiversity areas in Japan. It is home to over 5,300 marine species including some 260 endangered species. The dugong (Dugong dugon), an endangered marine mammal, Okinawa’s cultural icon, and Japan’s Natural Monument, makes this area the species’ northernmost habitat.

It is inconceivable that the Japanese and U.S. governments insist upon the validity of the EIA’s “no impact” conclusion. The construction of the base involves dumping of 21 million cubic meters of sand and rock (that is 3.5 million truck loads of sand and rock!) into the water. It will be nothing but an environmental disaster. This EIA is an affront to IUCN’s past Recommendation 2.72 and 3.114 and Resolution 4.022, which have called upon the both governments to conduct proper EIA for the construction of the base and to draw conservation plans for the dugong.

We the undersigned call upon the Japanese and U.S. governments to implement IUCN Recommendations 2.72 and 3.114 and Resolution 4.022 to their fullest extent.

We also call upon the governments to implement IUCN’s newly adopted Recommendation “Strengthening pathway management of alien species in island ecosystems” to its fullest extent.

IUCN https://www.iucn.org/
Save the Dugong Campaign Center http://www.sdcc.jp/enew/index.html

The petition site is here

Press Release: President Obama Asked to Stop U.S. Military Project That Threatens Endangered Dugong

Center for Biological Diversity made a press release.

For Immediate Release, May 26, 2016

Contact: Peter Galvin, (707) 986-2600, pgalvin@biologicaldiversity.org

President Obama Asked to Stop U.S. Military Project That Threatens Endangered Dugong

OKINAWA, Japan― During President Obama’s visit to Japan for the G-7 summit, the Center for Biological Diversity called on him to abandon his controversial plan to build a large new military base in biologically rich and sensitive Henoko and Oura Bay. The bay is home to the dugong ― a marine mammal related to manatees that is an ancient cultural icon in Okinawa ― and other endangered species. That project is strongly opposed by residents of the island, which has had a huge U.S. military presence since the end of World War II, and that opposition was galvanized by the recent murder of a young Okinawan woman, allegedly by a U.S. military contractor, for which Obama was publicly rebuked Wednesday by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

“Our large and lingering military presence has enraged the Okinawan people and now it’s threatening the dugong with extinction. President Obama should use his visit to Japan to abandon this controversial, ill-considered project,” said Peter Galvin, director of programs for the Center. “The people and wildlife of Okinawa need a chance to recover from our 44-year occupation of that biologically rich island.”

The military base project was approved with inadequate environmental review after being pushed through by the U.S. and Japanese national governments. Okinawan Gov. Takeshi Onaga last year withdrew local consent for the project, which is currently on hold pending a political resolution. The Center for Biological Diversity and other groups are challenging the project and that case is now before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

“Okinawa dugongs are barely hanging on, a sad fact that the approval process for this project ignored. We stand with the Okinawan people in calling for a real environmental review and respect for local concerns,” Galvin said. “We shouldn’t let the U.S. military continue to trash the Okinawa area or our relationship with its people.”

The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.