Japan’s Supreme Court has dismissed Okinawa’s rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to approve it despite protests by locals who oppose the American troops’ presence.
  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    72·
    10 months ago

    If it wasn’t for America, the mainland areas would likely be called former soviet nations.

    • Gsus4@feddit.nl
      51·
      10 months ago

      I’m assuming here that the US hadn’t embargoed Japan and stayed out of WW2. Probably Japan+Germany would have defeated a lone overstretched USSR.