小笠原返還交渉史のなかの沖縄返還交渉

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  • The Reversion of Okinawa in History of the Reversion of Ogasawara
  • オガサワラ ヘンカン コウショウシ ノ ナカ ノ オキナワ ヘンカン コウショウ

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There are almost no previous studies that examine the Reversion of Okinawa in the context of the Reversion of Ogasawara. The Ogasawara Reversion was considered a precedent of the Okinawa Reversion by the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Thus, in order to re-examine the Okinawa Reversion Negotiations, this paper demonstrates the link between the two negotiations by exploring the diplomatic documents that are located in the National Archives II, Collage Park. First, this paper discusses flaws of the prior consultation system of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, which is essential to understand the problems of the secret nuclear arrangements that were agreed by the United States and Japan during the negotiations concerning the reversions of Ogasawara and Okinawa. Then, this paper contrasts the word usage of the two arrangements within historical background. Finally, it clarifies the linkage between the two reversion negotiations by demonstrating why there are certain differences in the word usage in the two documents. This research concludes that the U.S. could return Okinawa without leaving nuclear weapons because Japan agreed to re-store the weapons in Iwo Jima in time of emergency; the U.S. perceived Iwo Jima as an alternative nuclear storage facility to Okinawa. Japanese negotiators kept insisting that Okinawa had to be returned denuclearized. However, what the U.S. negotiators wanted the most was the right to use bases in Japan, without Japan’s refusal, in the emergent situation in Korean Peninsula and Taiwan. Therefore, the State Department returned Okinawa without nuclear weapons in exchange for the rights of utilizing the bases in time of need and the rights of transit and re-entry of nuclear weapons in the contingency situations. The U.S. could dominate negotiations over the Okinawa Reversion because it had already obtained the alternative to Okinawa; Iwo Jima.

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  • 島嶼研究

    島嶼研究 18 (1), 15-34, 2017-02-28

    日本島嶼学会

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