Dr. Robert Sutter raises Northeast Asia security issues in Okinawa

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May 17, 2006

Dr. Robert Sutter addresses the Consulate General's seventh Okinawa journalist/base public affairs officer study group.

On May 17, Georgetown University’s Dr. Robert Sutter visited the island and addressed 20 participants in the seventh quarterly PAS-sponsored Okinawa journalist and U.S. military public affairs officer study group (“benkyokai”) on Northeast Asia security issues. While in Okinawa, PAO Frank W. Stanley also hosted a dinner for Sutter that included senior Okinawan journalists from the Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper, NHK TV, and QAB Television, a prefectural assembly member and a conflict resolution specialist from a local NGO.