Okinawa Environmental Justice Project's New Year Message for 2024 Happy New Year! We at the OEJP want to start the year 2024 by saying "Thank You" to those individuals and organizations who supported and worked with the Okinawa Environmental Justice Project throughout 2023. With your support and collaboration, we were able to continue our fight to protect Henoko-Oura Bay and the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Yambaru forest from the militarization by the Japanese and the U.S. governments of these areas. Stopping the Japanese government’s construction of a U.S. military base at Henoko-Oura Bay and the U.S. military’s training in the Yambaru forest is undoubtedly an enormous challenge, and we are still far from meeting the challenge. The destruction of Henoko-Oura Bay continued last year and is likely to be intensified this year. The impacts of the U.S. military’s training on the Yambaru forest have remained unexamined. However, we saw critical developments in 2023; we ca...