I remember reading that either South Korea or Japan wanted to scale back US’ military imposition on them at one point but after a visit by Obama and a warning by him they decided to completely backtrack. I can’t find the details for it because Google is being useless.
They are pretty much a vassal state of the US so most likely it is because the US asked them to do it.
Okinawa base screams that, but do these vassal states have literally 0 brains or will of their own?
I remember reading that either South Korea or Japan wanted to scale back US’ military imposition on them at one point but after a visit by Obama and a warning by him they decided to completely backtrack. I can’t find the details for it because Google is being useless.
Google loves hiding. Try Yandex, or any Searx instance, they have low to no filtering.