United States to Return Land to Japan for the First Time Since World War 2

By Anthony Hines

 

Since the end of WWII, the U.S. Army has been using Okinawa to train in jungle warfare. At least up until recently, when Japan and the U.S. has reached an agreement to return 10,000 acres of Okinawa back to Japan. This agreement has been going on for almost 20 years, when the two countries became allies.

 

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Japanese Deputy Defense Minister Kenji Wakamiya have spoken to the media about the deal on the flight deck of the helicopter Destroyer Izumo, which is apart of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force in Yokosuka. Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, visited Pearl Harbor, the first Japanese leader to actually go to the location. Abe only had to say, “We must never again repeat the devastation of war”. Carter calls this the visit a turning point for both countries, “Commitment to peace and also to reconciliation”.

 

The agreement should come together and finish on December 22nd, where they will finalize everything and return the land back, and continue down the path of peace.