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ＮＹ紙が「オスプレイ、沖縄以外に」（日刊スポーツ）
米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズ（電子版）は14日、米軍新型輸送機オスプレイの普天間飛行場（沖縄県宜野湾市）配備を目指す米政府の姿勢について「沖縄の負担を軽くし、懸念に耳を傾けなければならない」と批判、「それは配備先を（沖縄以外の）別の場所にすることから始まる」とした社説を掲載した。
社説では、県民はオスプレイが「事故を起こしやすい」と懸念していると指摘。同機の配備は過重な基地負担に苦しむ県民にとって「傷口に塩を塗り込むものだ」と訴えている。
海兵隊は、オスプレイは安全とアピールし、モロッコや米フロリダ州での事故は「人為ミス」として機体には問題がないとの認識を強調するが、「人口が密集している沖縄にとって不安はほとんど解消されていない」と分析した。(共同）
［2012年9月15日13時23分］
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/opinion/ospreys-in-okinawa.html?_r=0
Editorial
Ospreys in Okinawa（The New York Times）
Published： September 14, 2012
Tens of thousands of people rallied on Sunday in Okinawa to protest plans to deploy the MV-22 Osprey, the trouble-plagued tilt-rotor aircraft, at the United States Marine Corps base in the city of Ginowan. The Marines want to bring in 24 Ospreys to replace a fleet of Vietnam-era helicopters, but Okinawans, turning out in one of the largest anti-American protests in years, are bristling.
The Osprey has a terrible reputation as a prime example of a hugely expensive, dubiously useful weapons systems. Okinawans don’t care about the misspent money. They worry that the plane is prone to crashing. To many residents, who have borne the heavy burden of the American military presence in Japan, deploying the Osprey on the island is rubbing salt into an old wound.
The first dozen Ospreys to reach Japan have been grounded while the Japanese government reviews the plane’s safety record. Marine officials insist that the Osprey’s notorious defects have been worked out and that it is safe and reliable. But, in April, an Osprey crashed in Morocco, killing two Marines. Another crashed in Florida in June. Though officials blame pilot error for the accidents, that has hardly eased local fears in densely crowded Okinawa, which has seen hundreds of crashes and emergency landings of military jets and helicopters since the 1950s, several of them fatal.
The anger on Sunday was not just about two dozen planes. It reflects frustration over islanders’ long-stymied efforts to get the Marines entirely out of Okinawa. Japan and the United States struck a deal in 2006 to close Futenma, move several thousand Marines off the island and shift others to a new base on Okinawa’s less-populated northeast coast. But many Okinawans saw this agreement as inadequate, and it went nowhere. A deal reached in April to move 9,000 Marines has also been stalled.
For too long, Okinawans have seen promises but no movement. The United States has an obligation to tread lightly in Okinawa and to listen to the concerns of the residents. It can start by putting the Ospreys someplace else.
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