Штаты держали там базу в Окинаве, и в 60-е (до 72-го, кажется) там даже какое-то время лежали атомные боеголовки. Американский персонал, американское оборудование, американская логистика, etc. Для "обслуживания" всего этого, если оно вообще нужно, достаточно городка на окинавщине в 10000 человек, одного.
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Date: 2011-03-22 11:42 am (UTC)The “sympathy budget” is a term used to describe payments by the Japanese government for things like Japanese staff employed at U.S. military bases and other expenditures that help American forces in Japan. These expenses are about $2.2 billion a year, with most of it going to labor expenditures.
The United States pays about $40 billion to keep troops in Asia. The United States reportedly pays 88 percent of the cost of keeping an American presence in Korea but only 50 percent of the costs in Japan. Some sources report that Japan pays 70 percent of the cost, but that figure excludes troop salaries.
The Japanese government shells out $4 billion to subsidize 94 military based located on Japanese soil. About $3.3 billion of that covers the cost of labor, utilities, facility improvements and land rental; and the remaining $700 million is for tax exemptions.