Okinawa’s population crowds the paved southern third while the north remains green

Evidence

Okinawa Island is about the size of New York City, and most of the population lives in the island’s southernmost third, which is almost entirely one unbroken, paved urban area. Satellite images show the stark divide: lush green on top, gray below. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 838

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• The 1945 Battle of Okinawa razed nearly every structure on the island (similarity 0.86)
• The US seized one-fifth of Okinawa’s arable land within a year. (similarity 0.80)
• US troops policed 600,000 impoverished Okinawans after the war. (similarity 0.80)
• US displaced nearly half of Okinawa’s population and half its farmland (similarity 0.79)
• US base-building destroyed Okinawa’s farmland economy and left its people in poverty. (similarity 0.79)
• The US displaced half of Okinawa’s population by the mid-1950s. (similarity 0.79)
• U.S. bases displaced about 250,000 Okinawans, nearly half the island’s population. (similarity 0.78)
• US bases on Puerto Rico and Okinawa form colonial relationships that impoverish both islands. (similarity 0.78)