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	Masahide Ota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Masahide Ota (born Okinawa June 12, 1925) is a Japanese academicand politician who served as governor of Okinawa prefecture inthe 1990s.
		He haswritten many books on Okinawa, of which the best known is his account of the Battle of Okinawa of 1945 as he saw it as a high school student atthe time.
		In March 1990 Ota retired from the university and in November of the same year was elected governor of Okinawaprefecture on a non-party platform but with broadly leftist support.
	www.therfcc.org /masahide-ota-173238.html (199 words)

	About Governor Ota Masahide of Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Subj:Governor Ota Masahide of Okinawa From: cjohnson@ucsd.edu (Chalmers Johnson) The governor of Okinawa, Ota Masahide, 70, is perhaps the only Japanese politician in living memory who has both paid attention to what the people who elected him wanted him to do and who did not betray them when faced with bureaucratic resistance.
		Among Ota's many books on Okinawa, perhaps the most compelling is his recollection of the Battle of Okinawa of 1945 seen from the perspective of a high school student.
		In March 1990 Ota became a professor emeritus and on November 18, 1990, was elected governor of Okinawa prefecture on a platform of reforming prefectural politics.
	www.walrus.com /~dawei/articles/about.ohta.masahide-e.html (588 words)

	The Ota Testimony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Governor Ota, with his profound knowledge of Okinawan history, explodes the myth that Okinawa is a keystone in the East Asian military security.
		Governor Ota frequently returns to the principles of government embodied in the Japanese Constitution as standards by which the merits of treaties and laws should be judged.
		Governor Ota hoped that the case he was appealing was an opportunity for the Supreme Court to come up with a judgment that might long stand the test of time and history as a proof of justice done to Okinawans.
	www.okinawa.com /ota.html (1732 words)

	Okinawa Politics Masahide Ota
		Governor Ota's long-run objective is Okinawa's self-determination of its own future befitting its historical identity as a peaceful, unamled trade-oriented, international nation- state.
		Governor Ota, with his profound knowledge ofOkinawan history, explodes the myth that Okinawa is a keystone in the East Asian military security.
		According to Governor Ota, Okinawa's military base problem began with the Meiji government's dispatch and stationing ofan army unit in Okinawa at the time of the Ryukyu shobun.
	jf-barnes.home.att.net /ota.html (1715 words)

	Masahide Ota Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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	BBC News \| Asia-Pacific \| Anti-US governor loses Okinawa vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Masahide Ota, 73, who was supported by Japan's largest opposition party, had hoped to win a third four-year term of office.
		Mr Inamine, a former businessman, said he was more "realistic" than Mr Ota on the issue of reducing the American military presence in Okinawa.
		Tokyo correspondent, Juliet Hindell, says the ousting of Masahide Ota will come as a relief to the central government ahead of talks with President Clinton.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_214000/214812.stm (311 words)

	ota
		Ota is the ward which contains Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport).
		Canku Ota - Aug. 11, 2001 - Through the Eyes of an Elder
		The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) was founded in 1926
	www.fact-library.com /ota.html (92 words)

	www.smh.com.au - Island of bases seeks statehood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The movement for a form of statehood - led by a former Okinawa governor, Masahide Ota - would affect the renegotiation of base leases, the legal pretext for the US presence in Japan.
		Mr Ota, now an MP, told the Herald he had sought legal and constitutional advice about self-government, adding he sought something like US states' powers.
		Mr Ota said 20 per cent of the island's territory, 40 per cent of its air space and 29 important port facilities are subject to US control or restriction.
	www.smh.com.au /text/articles/2005/11/04/1130823398540.html (495 words)

	Battle of Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Fighting in the south was hardest, the Japanese soldiers hiding in caves, but the American advance was inexorable.
		The island fell on about June 21, though some Japanese continued fighting, including the future governor of Okinawa prefecture, Masahide Ota.
		The most famous American casualty was the war correspondent Ernie Pyle, who was picked of by a Japanese sniper on Ie-shima, a little off the northwest coast of Okinawa.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_okinawa.html (661 words)

	Masahide Ota - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This incident was bad enough, but it was what followed over the succeeding five years that has forced me to re-examine the American role in Japan and, by extension, to consider the American role in the world throughout the so-called Cold War era.
		In February 1996, the governor of Okinawa prefecture, a former professor named Masahide Ota, invited me to come to Okinawa’s capital, Naha, to give a speech on American policy in East Asia.
		They ignored plebiscites throughout Okinawa and in the city of Nago, where Futenma is allegedly to be moved, that called on the Japanese mainlanders to assume some of the burdens of the Security Treaty that they have sloughed off onto a minority population.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Aug/20/820opinion15.html (1092 words)

	Military Colonialism in Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Okinawa’s governor, Masahide Ota, who faces reelection in the fall of 1998, has been a thorn in Tokyo’s side ever since he refused to override the property rights of dissident Okinawan landlords who did not want to continue leasing their land for the use of American bases.
		Despite Ota’s very considerable reputation as a scholar (some thirty books and a full career as a professor at the University of the Ryukyus), the Japanese central government and its press appendages, particularly the Yomiuri, attack and ridicule him in every possible way.
		Pentagon officials, usually half Ota’s age, have learned to copy the behavior of their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Agency.
	www.aasianst.org /Viewpoints/johnson.htm (632 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Meeting with Governor Ota, Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, Dr. Kurt Campbell, will meet with Governor (Ota) Masahide of Okinawa, Japan, from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m., on April 17, 1997, in room 4E869, at the Pentagon.
		Governor Ota is visiting the Pentagon as part of a routine visit to discuss issues of mutual interest regarding U.S. military bases in Okinawa and the contributions of Okinawa to the bilateral security relationship, defense of Japan and regional security.
		Due to limited space in the conference room, media coverage of the meeting and a short question and answer period at the end of the meeting will be on a pool basis.
	www.dod.mil /advisories/1997/p041797_p076-97.html (157 words)

	Conversation with Chalmers Johnson, p. 1 of 4
		Okinawa prefecture, which is Japan's southernmost prefecture [is] the poorest place in the Japan, the equivalent of Puerto Rico; it's always been discriminated against by the Japanese since they seized it at the end of the nineteenth century.
		The governor, Masahide Ota, is a former professor.
		He invited me to Okinawa in February of 1996 to give a speech to his associates in light of what had happened on September 4, 1995, when two marines and a sailor from Camp Hansen in central Okinawa abducted, beat, and raped a twelve-year-old girl.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people4/CJohnson/cjohnson-con1.html (1279 words)

	World Peace Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		TOKYO -- Masahide Ota, who served as a governor of Okinawa from 1990 to 1998, is a Social Democratic Party member of the upper house of the Japanese parliament.
		He earned a master's degree in journalism at Syracuse University in New York and taught that subject and Okinawa history at the University of the Ryukyus before entering politics.
		Ota spoke with reporter Takehiko Kambayashi of The Washington Times about the U.S. military presence in Okinawa and Japan's relations with China and South Korea.
	www.wpherald.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20050520-100218-3278r (538 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In June last year, the Naha District Court ordered former Gov. Masahide Ota, now a Social Democratic Party member in the House of Councilors, to return the money and ruled that incumbent Gov. Keiichi Inamine acted illegally by not asking Ota to return the funds.
		The district court said it was illegal for the Okinawa government to have built a 14.2-km road in Yambaru, completed in March 1998, because proper procedures for ending its conservation status had not been taken.
		The suit was originally filed by the conservation group in 1996, seeking the suspension of local government spending on the projects.
	www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20041015a1.htm (381 words)

	OKINAWANS OUTRAGED OVER CRIMES BY US TROOPS [Free Republic]
		While Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine was not present at the event, former Gov. Masahide Ota joined the human chain.
		Ota said that while many Okinawans welcome the G-8 summit, others see it as simply an attempt to smooth the scheduled transfer of the Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, central Okinawa, to Nago.
		Demonstrator Akira Kadekaru, 35, who is originally from Okinawa but currently lives in Nara Prefecture, said a large proportion of the U.S. military facilities should be moved to Japan's mainland.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a396dca9034b0.htm (2877 words)

	Agreement will change Okinawa - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		In 1995, the rape of a 12-year-old schoolgirl by U.S. servicemen prompted an islandwide protest, and Gov. Masahide Ota's refusal to help the Japanese government extend leases for the base land ultimately ended up in a legal battle in Japan's Supreme Court.
		Ota claimed that Tokyo's policy of concentrating 75 percent of the U.S. military bases in Japan in Okinawa was discriminatory.
		He called on the Japanese government to redress this imbalance by reducing that burden.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Oct/30/op/FP510300337.html (1202 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Okinawa
		The naval contingent, under Admiral Ota, chose to stay in their elaborate cave system on the Oroku and fight to the last man. After two days, the Naha airfield fell into American hands and Sixth secured the peninsula within ten more days.
		Whether considered, 'like Go pieces, in a game of Go,' as often referred to by former Okinawan Governor, Masahide Ota, or as caught between the hammer and the anvil, their situation during the war was miserable.
		He expressed his concern for a people that the Japanese had done little to protect: Ever since our Army and Navy occupied Okinawa, the inhabitants of the prefecture have been forced into military service and hard labor while sacrificing everything they own as well as the lives of their loved ones.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/okinawa/part2.aspx (2248 words)

	Giarra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The pressure on U.S. bases in Okinawa intensified with the election of Governor Masahide Ota, a political independent and university professor turned politician.
		Ota's political influence was given a dramatic boost when a young Okinawan schoolgirl was raped by three American servicemen in September 1995.
		The Okinawan ideological intent eventually to close U.S. bases has, since September 1995, struck a resonant chord throughout Japan, captured the attention of the Japanese media, and shaken the very foundations of the security relationship.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/1997/autumn/art4-a97.htm (6665 words)

	Prism Online
		But Okinawans are asking why Japan still needs protection now that the cold war is over and why the bases need to be concentrated on their island.
		The Governor of the island, Masahide Ota, has defied the Japanese government by refusing to sign papers which force private land owners in Okinawa to lease land to the military, according to Time Magazine.
		Until now troops accused of a crime overseas, including the three suspects in the Okinawa rape case, have been allowed to stay on U.S. bases until indictment.
	www.journalism.sfsu.edu /www/pubs/prism/nov95/20.html (1044 words)

	Three Rapes: The Status of Forces Agreement and Okinawa
		Governor Inamine's predecessor as chief executive of Okinawa prefecture was Masahide Ota, a retired university professor, prolific writer on the history of the Ryukyus, and devoted anti-base activist (he is today a Socialist member of the upper house of the Diet).
		He ran against Ota's record of protest against the American military occupation and claimed that he could reopen friendly relations with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the U.S. military.
		Nonetheless, in the five years since he was elected in December 1998, Inamine has drawn increasingly closer to Ota's positions and has become well known for browbeating the incumbent Marine lieutenant general in charge of the huge Marine deployments on the island for incompetence in maintaining troop discipline.12
	www.commondreams.org /views03/1207-07.htm (6910 words)

	Cycle of Unease in Okinawa
		The 1995 rape was not the first such crime, but it seemed to awaken people's frustrations.
		Taking the lead was Gov. Masahide Ota, a scholar and author elected on the platform of reducing the American presence.
		Mass demonstrations led to creation of a commission to examine the issue.
	www.cato.org /dailys/08-01-00.html (768 words)

	GLOBAL BEAT
		The governor of Okinawa, Masahide Ota, has demanded the withdrawal of all 27,000 American military people from the island over the next 20 years, and limiting their training and live-fire drills in the meantime.
		Okinawa Governor Maashide Ota has rejected Tokyo's demand that he sign an administrative order forcing landowners to allow the U.S. military to continue using their real estate.
		His defiance has wide support among the people of Okinawa, who resent the presence on their islands of the vast majority of the U.S. military bases in Japan.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/pubs/briefs/ib13.html (4052 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The high court noted that the amended Special Land Use Law was enacted in April 1997 -- a month before their lease contracts expired.
		In 1995, then Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota refused to sign land expropriation documents on behalf of the central government, and the lease on Chibana's land expired as of March 31, 1996.
		Chibana refused to extend the lease, but the central government illegally continued to use the land for about a year until the revised Special Land Use Law came into effect.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20031128a1.htm (521 words)

	Renegotiate with US on Okinawa Base Issue - Empire? - Global Policy Forum
		All they want desperately is to be able to live in peace without any more violations of their human rights.
		About the Author: Ota Masahide, a former governor of Okinawa Prefecture and historian of Okinawa, is currently a Social Democratic Party member of the Upper House.
		He contributed this commentary to The Asahi Shimbun.
	www.globalpolicy.org /empire/intervention/2004/0607okinawa.htm (848 words)

	CNN - Fallout from schoolgirl's rape - Sept. 28, 1995
		Some 2,900 owners lease land inside the base to the military, but many are saying they will not renew their contracts when they expire.
		Gov. Masahide Ota has said he will not support renewal of the leases.
		He also demanded changes in the U.S.- Japan agreement governing the military forces.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9509/japan_rape/09-28 (579 words)

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