Two copies of this letter by American marine biologist Katherine Muzik — one in English, the other in Japanese — were sent to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Feb. 18, along with signed copies of two of Muzik's children's books about the sea, also in English and Japanese, and her CV. Although U.S. Postal Service records suggest the package was received by the embassy on Feb. 24, Muzik has yet to receive a response.
Your Excellency Caroline Kennedy, United States Ambassador to Japan,
With this letter, I entreat you to help protect the marvelous coral reef ecosystem at Oura Bay (Henoko) in Nago city, northeast Okinawa, from certain destruction under the U.S.-Japan plan for military expansion.