Does the central government decide where elementary schools are built? In the above paragraph you said the Okinawans were the guilty party.
Yes, the "central" government as in the Prefecture along with the city, town or village authorities, decide where the schools will be built, partly because funding for the schools comes from the national government as well.
Yes I did say the Okinawan government was guilty as well. It wasn't necessary for the schools to be built "right" there. If you have ever been to Okinawa you may have seen that the ES school that I refered to is right in the flight pattern for take-offs and landings at MCAS Futenma. The school, and others in the area around Futenma and Kadena Air Base have double glass windows as well as A/C, as well as other "sound-proofing" done on the buildings to keep the noise level down within the classrooms, all paid for by tax money funded through the Naha Defense Agency Bureau.
Now then this is all after the fact so there is really nothing that can be done about it. The point is however that there are certain situations here that were created by the Okinawan's, jointly with the American government as I will point out later, themselves. Which is of course their right as it is their island.
Just about every building on the island was destroyed during the war, so it isn't really surprising that public officials would not choose to re-build facilities on the exact spot they had existed previously.
I know that, I have seen pictures and movies of the destruction more times than I would wish to count. The majority of the rebuilding after the war was done through funding of the US goverment.
The US government is also partially to blame for some of the current problems with the buildings as well as some were constructed when the island was still under control of the US government during Ryukyu Administration Period which ran from the end of the war until May 15th 1972. Yet the bases were there before the facilities in question were built. The school was originally built in the late 1960's, so the final decision to build the school at the time would have also come under the control of the US Government as well.
http://www.ginowan-okn.ed.jp/~hpfutenma2-e/
The base itself has been in it's current location since 1945 so the build up of the city around it has taken place since then. My point is there is quite a bit of blame that can be passed around, but in the end the current situation as it stands is in neither countries best interests and needs to be resolved in a more timely manner with the support and assistance of the Japanese
Government in getting some other location in Japan to either host the base or rebuild it. Which of course will never happen as the central government in Tokyo has shown time and again that it really doesnt give two hoots about the "people" of Okinawa anyway.
Thank you.