{"id":8519,"date":"2011-03-07T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T06:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2011-03-07T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T06:57:07","slug":"anger-spreads-over-kevin-mahers-derogatory-comments-on-okinawans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8519","title":{"rendered":"Anger Spreads Over Kevin Maher&#8217;s Derogatory Comments on Okinawans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satoko Norimatsu of the <a href=\"http:\/\/peacephilosophy.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/anger-spreads-over-kevin-mahers.html\">Peace Philosophy Centre<\/a> posted the more information about the derogatory comments made by State Department official Kevin Maher about Okinawans:<\/p>\n<h2>Anger Spreads Over Kevin Maher&#8217;s Derogatory Comments on Okinawans<\/h2>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-RPQTTvNXta4\/TXVpsY_B6vI\/AAAAAAAAP64\/TfrCKDCNa5g\/s1600\/KevinMaher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-RPQTTvNXta4\/TXVpsY_B6vI\/AAAAAAAAP64\/TfrCKDCNa5g\/s320\/KevinMaher.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kevin Maher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>On December 3, 2010, Kevin Maher, Director of the Office of  Japan Affairs and former U.S. Consul-General of Okinawa gave a lecture  to the fourteen students of American University (Washington, DC) who  were going to visit Okinawa to learn about the issues surrounding US  military bases there. Kyodo News Agency, Okinawan newspapers Ryukyu  Shimpo and Okinawa Taimusu, and other media reported it on March 7,  2011, and anger quickly spread through Okinawa over Maher&#8217;s numerous  derogatory remarks about Okinawa and its people. The March 8 edition of  Ryukyu Shimpo ran almost five full pages of special reports, analyses,  an editorial that calls for dismissal of Maher, a response from US  Embassy in Tokyo saying Maher&#8217;s views did not represent the US  government at all, and critical comments from former Governor of Okinawa  Ota Masahide, citizens, politicians and scholars in Okinawa and Japan.  Ota says Maher is one who &#8220;endorsed the Henoko plan, so we should use  this opportunity to crush the plan.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peacephilosophy.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/anger-spreads-over-kevin-mahers.html\">READ THE FULL ARTICLE INCLUDING THE TEXT OF THE NOTES TAKEN BY AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM MAHER&#8217;S TALK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satoko Norimatsu of the Peace Philosophy Centre posted the more information about the derogatory comments made by State Department official Kevin Maher about Okinawans: Anger Spreads Over Kevin Maher&#8217;s Derogatory Comments on Okinawans Kevin Maher On December 3, 2010, Kevin Maher, Director of the Office of Japan Affairs and former U.S. Consul-General of Okinawa gave &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anger Spreads Over Kevin Maher&#8217;s Derogatory Comments on Okinawans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-8519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8521,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions\/8521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}