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6月23日の沖縄全戦没者追悼式の中で、翁長雄志（おながたけし）知事が平和宣言の中で「普天間基地を辺野古に移設する作業の中止の決断を強く求めます」として、移設計画を進める安倍政権の姿勢を強く批判した。
この日は、太平洋戦争末期の沖縄戦の犠牲者らを悼む「慰霊の日」。追悼式は最後の激戦地となった沖縄県糸満市摩文仁（まぶに）の平和祈念公園で開かれた。朝日新聞デジタルによると、日米両政府が普天間返還に合意し、辺野古周辺が候補地に浮上した1996年以降、慰霊の日の平和宣言で県知事が明確に辺野古移設計画の中止を訴えるのは初めて。6月23日は、沖縄戦で組織的戦闘が終わったとされる日。追悼式には翁長知事のほか、安倍晋三首相や衆参両院議長、キャロライン・ケネディ駐日米国大使らが参列した。
安倍首相は「沖縄の基地負担軽減に全力を尽くして参ります」と述べたものの、辺野古移設には触れなかった。翁長知事の平和宣言の全文は以下の通り。
■翁長雄志知事の平和宣言全文
70年目の6月23日を迎えました。私たちの郷土沖縄では、かつて史上稀に見る熾烈な地上戦が行われました。
20万人あまりの尊い命が犠牲となり、家族や友人など愛する人々を失った悲しみを、私たちは永遠に忘れることができません。それは私たち沖縄県民が、その目や耳、肌に戦のもたらす悲惨さを鮮明に記憶しているからであり、戦争の犠牲になられた方々の安らかであることを心から願い、恒久平和を切望しているからです。
戦後、私たちはこの思いを忘れることなく、復興と発展の道を力強く歩んで参りました。しかしながら国土面積の0.6％に過ぎない本県に日米安全保障体制を担う米軍専用施設の73.8％が集中し、依然として過重な基地負担が県民生活や本県の振興開発にさまざまな影響を与え続けています。
米軍再編に基づく普天間飛行場の辺野古への移設をはじめ、嘉手納飛行場より南の米軍基地の整理縮小がなされても、専用施設面積の全国に占める割合は0.7％しか縮小されず、返還時期も含め、基地負担の軽減とはほど遠いものであります。
沖縄の米軍の基地問題は我が国の安全保障の問題であり、国民全体で負担すべき重要な課題であります。特に普天間飛行場の辺野古移設については昨年の選挙で反対の民意が示されており、辺野古に新基地を作ることは困難であります。そもそも私たち県民の思いとは全く別に強制接収された「世界一危険」といわれる普天間飛行場の固定化は許されず、その危険性除去のため「辺野古に移設する。嫌なら沖縄が代替案を出しなさい」との考えは到底、県民には受け入れられるものではありません。国民の自由・平等・人権・民主主義が等しく保障されずして、平和の礎を築くことはできないのであります。
政府においては固定観念に縛られず、普天間基地を辺野古に移設する作業の中止を決断され、沖縄の基地負担を軽減する政策を再度見直されることを強く求めます。一方、私たちを取り巻く世界情勢は地域紛争やテロ、差別や貧困が基となり、多くの人が命を落としたり、人間としての尊厳が蹂躙されるなど、悲劇が今なお繰り返されています。このような現実にしっかりと向き合い、平和を脅かすさまざまな問題を解決するには、一人一人が積極的に平和を求める強い意志を持つことが重要であります。
戦後70年を迎えてアジアの国々を繋ぐ架け橋として活躍した先人たちの万国津梁（しんりょう）の精神を胸に刻み、これからも私たちはアジア太平洋地域の発展と平和の実現に向けて、努力して参ります。未来を担う子や孫のために誇りある豊かさをつくりあげ、時を超えていつまでも子供たちの笑顔が絶えない豊かな沖縄を目指します。慰霊の日にあたり、戦没者の御霊に心から哀悼の誠を捧げるとともに、沖縄が恒久平和の発信地として輝かしい未来の構築に向けて全力で取り組んでいく決意を、ここに表明します。
写真で振り返る沖縄戦
Out Of Hiding(01 of51)
17th April 1945: Okinawa civilians returning from hiding places in the hills following the invasion of the island by American soldiers. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Fox Photos via Getty Images)
Okinawa Refugees(02 of51)
Simple medical care for refugees in Okinawa after their liberation from Japanese rule. Two of the women have tattoos on their hands. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Wartime Famine(03 of51)
27th April 1945: A severely malnourished girl from Okinawa is given a sponge bath in a refugee camp on the island, which is part of south-west Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Doomed Battleship(04 of51)
26th October 1944: The Japanese battleship Yamato is attacked by US bombers during the battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. The largest ship in action during World War II, she was later sunk by US forces on 7th April 1945, during a kamikaze mission to Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Okinawa Barrage(05 of51)
Spring 1945: Rockets from an American LSM(R) (Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket)) stream towards Okinawa Island of the Ryukyu archipelago (Loochoos) just before the invasion by US 10th Army forces. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
WWII Japanese Prisoners(06 of51)
Japanese leaders of prisoner of war platoons line up with large cans to receive soup rations for their men at a prisoner of war camp located near Kadena on Okinawa, Aug. 2, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(07 of51)
U.S. Military inspect a Japanese \"dummy\" plane on Okinawa, June 16, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII: Okinawa(08 of51)
Possibly the greatest concentration of transport planes ever assembled is gathered on the air fields of Okinawa, Japan on August 28, 1945. The Douglas C-54s will be used in occupation of the Japanese by air-borne units, scheduled to take-off and land. (AP Photo/Frank Filan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII US Troops Japan(09 of51)
Airborne troops wait on the runway of an Okinawa airfield for the order to board planes for Japan, Aug. 29, 1945. They landed on Atsugi airfield near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Frank Filan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. Okinawa(10 of51)
Stray Japs should come along on Okinawa, these marines would be ready with a machine gun and a browning automatic rifle on August 9, 1945. Left to right: Pvt. Edward Grossman, 710 Union St., Hudson, N.Y., and Pvt. Arthur Welborn, 6811 Washington Ave, St. Louis, Mo. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japanese Surrender(11 of51)
14th July 1945: His face covered with blood from a head wound, a Japanese naval lieutenant surrendered to American forces after hiding in caves on the island of Okinawa. He decided to make his own \'separate peace\' after he heard a Japanese compatriot broadcast from an American landing craft telling of his experience as a prisoner in American hands and recommending it. The broadcast resulted in one of the biggest Japanese mass surrenders of World War Two. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Japanese Surrender(12 of51)
14th July 1945: A Japanese naval lieutenant, blood pouring from a head wound surrenders to the American army at Okinawa at the end of World War II. His surrender and that of many his countrymen followed a radio broadcast by a captured Japanese soldier, assuring others of his good treatment at the hands of the enemy. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Assault On Japan(13 of51)
8th June 1945: On the slope of a hill on Okinawa a marine gun crew take on Japanese pillboxes across the way. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Pinned Down(14 of51)
8th June 1945: A group of 6th Division Marines take cover behind a wall during their fight amid the wrecked homes and rubble of Naha, capital city of the Japanese island of Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Last Photograph Of General Buckner(15 of51)
The last photograph of American Army Lieutenant general Simon Bolivar Buckner (1886 - 1945) commander of the Tenth Army and the overall invasion of Okinawa, June 1945. Buckner was killed on June 18 by Japanese artillery during a visit to observe the front line. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
Funeral Service(16 of51)
5th June 1945: On the small island of Ie Shima (near Okinawa) in the Ryukyu archipelago an American Army chaplain leads a service over the graves of fallen Americans who had died while fighting the Japanese in World War Two. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Phosphorous Attack(17 of51)
31st May 1945: US Marines of the 1st Division wait on the crest of a hill in southern Okinawa, as they watch phosphorous shells explode over Japanese soldiers dug into the hills. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Tank Flamethrower(18 of51)
30 May 1945: A flame-throwing tank of the American Army 6th Marine Division lays down a barrage of fire on a hillside on Okinawa as the leathernecks mopped up the opposition on the road to Naha, capital of Okinanwa island, 300 miles south of Tokyo. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Ladders On Okinawa(19 of51)
30 May 1945: American infantrymen of the 77th Division of the 10th Army use spliced ladders to bridge a gulch on the road to the town of Shuri on the island of Okinawa. Despite the dogged Japanese resistance, the Americans are pressing relentlessly, overcoming all obstacles. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Okinawa Generals(20 of51)
28th May 1945: Us generals on a rocky ledge observe American troops advancing towards the town of Naha on the island of Okinawa, in the Ryukyu (Loochoo) archipelago, 375 miles (600km) south of Japan. L-R are: Lieut Gen Simon Buckner, commander of the 10th US Army, Maj Gen Lemuel Shepherd, commander of the 6th US Marine Division, and Brig Gen William Clement, assistant to Shepherd. The marines landed on Okinawa on 31st March 1945 and by late May controlled three quarters of the island and were just beginning to break the Japanese southern defensive line. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Anti-Sniper Operations, Okinawa(21 of51)
American soldiers use phosphorous and hand grenades to clear the jungle of Japanese snipers during the struggle for Okinawa Island, Japan, Spring 1945. The battle continued for two months and cost 12,000 American lives, 120,000 Japanese military dead, and 42,000 civilians. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
Amphibious Assault(22 of51)
1945: American amphibious tanks and landing craft approach the beach at Aguni Jima, 30 miles west of Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Battle For Okinawa(23 of51)
1945: American tanks and infantrymen advance under Japanese attack during the Battle for Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Battle For Okinawa(24 of51)
1945: American Marines advance on trapped Japanese soldiers bombed during the Battle for Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Guarding Beachhead(25 of51)
A US GI guarding a beachhead on the island of Okinawa during war in the Pacific. A dynamited coral reef blows up in the background, to provide a landing place for US supply ships. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
WWII U.S. Okinawa(26 of51)
While moving up forward to the zone of combat on Okinawa on June 7, 1945, these men of the powerful U.S. Tenth Army relax as best they can while keeping their âeagle eyeâ peeled for any dangers from ahead. These men, like many others who have done so in the past, are getting prepared to teach the Nips a lesson they wonât be soon in forgetting. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. MARINE SPOTTER PLANE(27 of51)
A U.S. Marine spotter plane flies an artillery control mission over the front lines on Okinawa, Japan on June 2, 1945 during World War II. Below, smoke rises from artillery and mortar fire on enemy strongpoints. (AP Photo/U.S. Marines Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. MARINE WOUNDED(28 of51)
Medical corpsmen administers blood plasma to a wounded U.S. Marine on the battlefield overlooking Naha, capital of Okinawa, Ryukyu Island, Japan, on June 4, 1945 during World War II. Marines stay alert with rifles at right. In the background at left lies the body of a dead Marine. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
World War II(29 of51)
During the Marines? all-out assault on Sugar Loaf hill of the outskirts of Naha, the Okinawa capital, June 3, 1945, almost impossible to evacuate the wounded by stretcher parties. Dressed into service and solved the problem by placing the flat portion to the rear of the turret. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(30 of51)
In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, American fires a 30 Caliber water cooled machine-gun to protect advancing Marines in Okinawa, Japan on June 1, 1945. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. Okinawa(31 of51)
Hanging their âopen for businessâ sign at the entrance of a Yank designed tea room on Okinawa on June 2, 1945 are four American troops, left to right: HA1/c Walter E. OâNeill, 3459 West Adams St., Chicago, Ill.; PHM3/C David Casey Keating, 2729 North Crosby St., Philadelphia, Pa.; HA1/C Durard Fleming, Route 1, Hendersonville, N.C., and PHM3/C Tony L. Definis, 7252 Hegoman St., Philadelphia, Pa. all are members of a medical battalion. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. Okinawa(32 of51)
Greeting comic sheets with smiles on Okinawa on June 2, 1945 in front lines are P1/SGT. John W. Splelse, left, Spartanberg, S.C., and CPL. A. Waddington, St. Louis, Mo. others in picture are not identified. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(33 of51)
In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, a Marine of the Sixth Division stands in his foxhole observation post to check accuracy of rocket fire and relay data to station of rocket firing trucks on Okinawa on June 1, 1945. His partner checks position of trucks which keep moving to present a difficult target for Japanese. Smoke of American rockets lifts over horizon in background. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE OF OKINAWA(34 of51)
In this image provided by the U.S. Marines, with the pilot visible, a U.S. Navy Chance-Vought F4U Corsair fighter plane is firing its load of rocket projectiles on the run against a Japanese stronghold on Okinawa island, in June 1945 during World War II. Battle smoke is seen rising up in the lower background, as U.S. Marine Corps ground forces follow up with the invasion. (AP Photo/U.S. Marines, David D. Duncan) (credit:AP)
WWII KAMIKAZE CRASH OKINAWA(35 of51)
Seen from a U.S. carrier, a Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the sea as he is shot down by antiaircraft fire, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in June 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE OF OKINAWA(36 of51)
U.S. Marines of the 1st Division head for the front lines on Okinawa, on May 21, 1945, during the U.S. invasion of the island in southwestern Japan. ( AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(37 of51)
American Medical Corps men treat an Okinawan civilian, who was badly wounded in the jaw and arms during the fighting of the Japanese island on May 20, 1945. The nativeâs wife supports him as he sits on a litter. He is wearing the Japanese army jungle shoes, with their characteristic separation for the big toe. (AP Photo/Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. MARINES BLAST JAPANESE CAVE(38 of51)
A dynamite blast showers debris high into the air as the U.S. Marines demolition crew eliminates Japanese resistance in a cave on Okinawa on the Ryukyu Islands on May 21, 1945 during World War II. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(39 of51)
In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, a First Marine Division machine gun crew on Okinawa watches while a flame-throwing tank, left, puts a Japanese pillbox out of action on May 19, 1945. The machine gunners had previously âspottedâ the position with their weapons. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE OF OKINAWA(40 of51)
A Japanese suicide bomber goes down next to a U.S. Navy destroyer, during the Battle of Okinawa, on May 16, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. BATTLE OF OKINAWA(41 of51)
An unknown U.S. Navy carrier in the background is attacked by salvos from a Japanese warship, while the flight deck crew aboard the U.S. carrier in the foreground rushes to launch their fighter planes, during a battle off Okinawa island, on May 16, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(42 of51)
First Division Marines advance past burning buildings in Naha, capital of Okinawa, in the fight to wrest the Ryukyu island from the Japanese on May 14, 1945. The building was set afire to dislodge Japanese snipers. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
World War II(43 of51)
Exploding in a bright ball of flame during its death dive, a Japanese kamikaze plane pays unintended tribute to the Marksmanship of Navy gunners in task force 58, May 14, 1945, aboard the U.S.S. hornet off Okinawa, the debris of the shattered plane plummets from the cloud into the pacific. Men of the hornet line the flight beck to watch in jubilant intensity as the Kamikaze disappears. The U.S.S. Bennington (center) was the intended target of the Jap. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. Okinawa(44 of51)
While American cities were going wild on an unconfirmed report of Germanyâs unconditional surrender, American soldiers and marines were dying on Okinawa and showing checking of the identification of the dead on May 9, 1945, were being enacted. Resistance continues to be savage on this island in Japanâs front yard. (AP Photo/Sam Goldstein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
USS BUNKER HILL KAMIKAZE ATTACK(45 of51)
In the morning of May 11, 1945, while supporting the Okinawa invasion, the USS Bunker Hill is heavily hit by two Japanese kamikaze planes off the coast of Kyushu, Japan. Several explosions took place and the ship suffered 372 dead and 264 injured. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Ryukyu Islands(46 of51)
Wrecked town and burning houses as 6th Marines advance on Motobu peninsula on Okinawa, Japan on April 26, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Ryukyu Islands(47 of51)
Scene of wrecked town with Japanese landing barges in foreground and cruiser firing in background at Okinawa, Japan on April 26, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(48 of51)
A U.S. soldier inspects a damaged Japanese fighter plane on the airfield at Okinawa, April 16, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(49 of51)
U.S. Marines clean out cave on Okinawa, Japan on April 16, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles P. Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE OF OKINAWA(50 of51)
Sitting on a tank, these U.S. infantrymen are seen on their way to take the town of Ghuta on Okinawa, on April 1, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Color(51 of51)
U.S. cruiser fires her main batteries at Japanese positions on the southern tip of Okinawa, Japan in 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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