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(回答先: 「米政府が普天間に固執するなら、全ての米軍基地の撤去を求める（星条旗新聞）」宜野湾市長発言報じないマスゴミは便所紙以下。 投稿者 SOBA 日時 2010 年 4 月 30 日 09:25:20)
マスゴミ伝えず、知らぬは日本人ばかりなり。テニアンは普天間基地機能招致を望んでいる（4月21日、2月13日星条旗新聞）
http://soba.txt-nifty.com/zatudan/2010/04/421213-0076.html
以下、星条旗新聞など資料採録。末尾に航空写真で位置関係などをご説明しておきます。
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テニアンの上院が海兵隊移転の地として立候補〜全国紙は伝えた？【ヤメ蚊】
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/tokyodo-2005/e/3002d23af4127893f0bb0261253eb5a6
Tinian Island makes a push to host Futenma operations【４月２１日 Stars and Stripes】
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=69453
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, April 21, 2010
GINOWAN, Okinawa ― While no communities on Okinawa and mainland Japan are willing to accept the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, lawmakers representing tiny Tinian Island are campaigning for it to be the new home of the controversial base.
The Senate of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands voted unanimously Friday to encourage U.S. and Japanese officials to consider Tinian the best location for the transfer of U.S. Marine air units from Okinawa, according to the Saipan Tribune.
Two-thirds of Tinian, one of the smallest of the 15 islands in the CNMI, is already leased by the Department of Defense. The Manhattan-sized island was a major launching point for B-29s bombing Japan during World War II.
The U.S. and Japan agreed back in 1996 to close Futenma, located in Ginowan’s urban center, but several plans to relocate the base to a more rural location were abandoned due to strong local opposition.
Japan’s new left-center government is looking for alternatives to the latest plan, a 2006 agreement to build a new air facility on the Henoko Peninsula and reclaimed land in the waters off northeast Okinawa, but alternate sites for the base have been hard to find.
For residents of the Northern Marianas, however, the Marines could be an economic boon.
“This involves infusion of dollars and Japanese yen to Tinian,” said CNMI Sen. Jude Hofschneider, who presented the bill to the senate, according to the Tribune. “We should be seeing money trickling in as early as 2014 if the relocation happens.”
The senator could not be reached for further comment Monday.
The idea is being pushed by Japan’s Social Democratic Party, a minority member of the three-party coalition that took power there last September. Tinian is just 80 miles north of Guam. The 28-square mile island has about 3,500 residents.
Meanwhile, more than 15,000 residents of Tokunoshima, an island some 125 miles north of Okinawa, turned out for a rally Sunday opposing any move to transfer the Marine air units there.
Although Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has not publicly disclosed any alternate sites being considered, the Japanese media, quoting unnamed government sources, are reporting that Tokunoshima, with a population of 26,000 people, is one of the leading prospects.
“A military base will destroy our beautiful nature and the harmony of our community,” a resolution passed by consensus of the crowd states.
According to Japanese media reports, also quoting unnamed sources, the U.S. has flatly turned down any consideration of Tokunoshima as a replacement for Futenma.
Tinian may be alternative for Marines on Okinawa【２月１３日 Stars and Stripes】
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=67975
By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, February 13, 2010
Dana Potts/Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
An aerial view of the USAAF North Field on Tinian Island. It was from here in World War Two that B-29 bombers flew long range missions against mainland Japan Both the missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki originated from this airstrip.
RELATED STORY: Japanese panel likes Tinian option
TOKYO ― Attention, Marines: If you need a new home for those helicopters on Okinawa, give Tinian a call. The tiny mid-Pacific island is waiting to hear from you.
That’s the message from leaders on the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, according to a spokesman for Gov. Benigno R. Fitial.
“We would be willing to consider any relocation the government would present to us,” said spokesman Tom Linden, who serves as coordinator of the commonwealth’s Military Integration Management Committee.
When asked Thursday if that could include permanently playing host to as many as 4,000 Marines and helicopters comprising air operations at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma ― the focus of a U.S.-Japan stalemate involving relocation of the base on Okinawa ― Linden said it depends on what Pentagon leaders ultimately want.
“If they wish, I guess it would,” he said during a phone interview.
It was not known what the military thought of the idea. A phone call to the Joint Guam Program Office, the military office on Guam charged with coordinating the buildup, was not returned Thursday.
Japanese officials on a committee to look at alternatives to hosting Marine air operations on Okinawa met this week with Guam officials and Fitial to discussed options there and on Tinian and other islands in the commonwealth. Under a 2006 U.S.-Japan military realignment pact, Japan is to pay nearly 60 percent of the projected $10.6 billion cost of relocating Marines from Okinawa to Guam.
Tinian’s interest in hosting U.S. military troops is a far cry from growing concerns on Okinawa and Guam, where the issues include, respectively, the continued presence and the impending arrival of thousands of Marines.
“We would like to see some military buildup in the area,” Linden said this week. “Tinian has been waiting for 30 years. They have been expecting to have a military buildup for quite some time.”
The Manhattan-size island, a major launching point for B-29 bombing missions of Japan during World War II, lies about 80 miles north of Guam.
So far, the military wants to use Tinian as a training area for the 8,600 troops from III Marine Expeditionary Force who are expected to move from Okinawa to Guam by 2014.
That training would require four small-arms ranges and a 1,000-square-meter area to allow platoons to conduct maneuvering exercises, according to John Jackson, a retired Marine Corps colonel who is director for the Guam program office. As many as 300 Marines would come monthly for week-long training. They would bring their own supplies, set up their own tents and stay on their own land.
Some in the commonwealth, which consists of 15 islands including Saipan and Rota, say current military plans for Tinian aren’t mutually beneficial. Specifically, they say the Marines’ training proposal may not mitigate for what the local economy could lose ― access to chili pepper crops, grazing lands and tourist attractions like the runway the B-29 “Enola Gay” used as it took off to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, according to Phillip Mendiola-Long, the current president of Tinian’s chamber of commerce.
“The chamber supports the buildup,” Mendiola-Long said during a phone call earlier this week. “But we have to have an equal partner. We’re going to start to slide.”
Yet it’s unclear, at this point, whether the Marines would be allowed any liberty time to spend money on the island. That’s what has some worried and looking for more military investment.
For more than three decades the military has leased nearly 28 square miles on Tinian, an area that covers two-thirds of an island that has fewer than 3,000 residents and no stop light. Past military training there was infrequent but significant, local and military officials said. Every two to three years, a few hundred troops would drop in for two to three weeks to train and spend money.
“The local hotels would fill,” Mendiola-Long said. “We’d run out of money in the ATMs.”
Vendors would sell food, and troops on liberty would gamble in the island’s sole casino, he added.
Between training sessions, the military land remained open to the public.
When the military announced nearly four years ago it would use Tinian for more frequent training, commonwealth leaders grew interested, Mendiola-Long said. But they found out late last year that the military plans for Tinian involve only expeditionary training.
The Marines “must be able to defend, deter, meet treaty obligations or any other contingency,” said Col. Robert Loynd, one of two Marines on Guam who currently make up Marine Forces Pacific (Forward) Guam, the unit proposed to grow to 8,600 Marines.
That could mean tourist areas could be closed for portions of the training, according to Jackson. It would periodically cut access to the island’s main north-south road, he added. And, while military construction might add a couple hundred temporary jobs to the island, overall the military estimates it will need 12 to 15 full-time jobs to work security, clean out temporary toilets and cut back brush.
“We’re going to cut the grass and clean up the poo-poo?” said Mendiola-Long, with a hint of indignation.
Linden says Fitial is working with Guam leaders to find ways the proposed buildup could benefit Tinian more. The Futenma offer is part of those plans.
“The feeling is that Guam is getting all the money with very little lost,” Linden said. “On Tinian, the military is going to use more land, with next to no economic impact.”
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