Dear Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima,
I am writing to you with a suggestion about how to resolve the ongoing Futenma air base issue. I believe your best course of action is to insist that both Washington and Tokyo justify the necessity for the base to remain on Okinawan soil.
Demand specific scenarios in which the base could actually be of some practical use, in the form of "China/North Korea/Russia does this, then the U.S. does this, the U.N. says this and then the U.S. Marines at Futenma do this." And "the reasons why the marines could only have come from a base on Okinawa are these."