Many of us who spent time on the rock loved this place. Like so many other US facilities on Okinawa, it is reverting to GoJ control and then back to the Okinawan land owners. So long Awase, thanks for the good times....
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phil
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-b...0100803a4.html
Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010
Okinawa golf course U.S. built in '48 handed over
Compiled from Kyodo, Staff report
The Defense Ministry's Okinawa bureau allowed reporters to watch as U.S. military signs came down Monday at Awase Meadows Golf Course at Camp Foster in Kitanakagusuku, a day after the 47-hectare compound was returned to Japan in line with a 1996 agreement.
Tokyo and Washington agreed to return the links, which opened in 1948, on condition that an alternative course for U.S. military personnel be opened in the U.S. Kadena Ammunition Storage Area of Okinawa.
(Story continues at the link, above)
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