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Henoko seabed survey on hold for month [News]
The fight between the central government and Okinawa Prefectural government over the landfill preparation work for the Furenma replacement f...Read More
2014: Guard changes, but Futenma remains… [News]
For the third year in a row, the plans to move MCAS Futenma to a new base in Henoko, demands to move it out of the prefecture, and oppositio...Read More
Futenma, Senkakus provide most memorable… [News]
By Bill Charles If Futenma Marine Corps Air Station didn’t exist, and if China didn’t have its eye on the Senkaku Islands in southwestern Ok...Read More
Okinawa Assembly declares there’s “burning resentment” over rape [News]
Okinawa’s Prefectural Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution voicing “burning resentment” against the United States and Tokyo for the rape of an Okinawan woman last week. “P...
Motorcyclist injured when hit by mini-car [News]
A mini-car making a right turn at a crossing without a traffic signal crashed into a motorcycle traveling through the intersection, leaving the motorcycle driver hospitalized uncon...
Chinese ships again in waters near Senkaku islets [News]
It’s becoming almost routine; Chinese patrol ships are again in waters near the Senkaku Islands, sending Japanese Coast Guard vessels into oversight mode. Four maritime surveillanc...
Boat owner found dead aboard drifting vessel [News]
A fishing boat has found a small boat, the Umade Maru, drifting with its engine off close to Okanami Island west of Nishizaki in Itoman City, the boat’s owner lying dead in the bow...
Naha man arrested, charged with embezzling ¥1 million [News]
An unemployed 55—year-old Naha City man has been arrested and is being investigated on charges he embezzled at least ¥1 million from his former employee. Hiroyuki Kayama, was a dut...
U.S., Japan cancel drill on retaking an island [News]
Bowing to pressure from China, the United States and Japan have backed off plans for a joint exercise simulating the retaking of a remote island from foreign forces. The joint dril...
2012.10.20
All U.S. Military stationed in Japan now in overnight curfew [News]
Reacting to the rape of a young Okinawa woman early this week, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan has ordered an overnight curfew for all U.S. military personnel in the country. Ambassad...
Black bass found in Kanna Dam [News]
Officials at the Okinawa Prefectre General Bureau said on Oct. 12 that they have discovered a black bass in the Kanna Dam in Ginoza Village. They suspect that someone transplanted ...
ATMs for tourists coming at last [News]
ATM and money changer machines that allow visitors from overseas to withdraw cash from their accounts and credit cards has long been a wish among overseas tourists, who are often s...
Japan wary as China brings more ships closer to territory [News]
China has a pair of destroyers among a group of warships that have been spotted in waters near Yonaguni Island in southern Okinawa Prefecture, a move that while legal, has Japan co...
Remote island to be “retaken’ in joint U.S. – Japanese drill [News]
A joint exercise between Japanese Self Defense Forces and American troops is slated for next month as a drill to practice “retaking” an uninhabited island from foreign forces. Bila...
Japan’s Ambassador to the U.S. thinks China watching America [News]
Japan’s ambassador to the United States is watching the Senkaku Islands dispute with China, and is attributing at least some of the calming influences to be coming from respect for...
China issues warning against Japan-Taiwan fishing pact [News]
There’s not much Japan is doing these days that pleases China, which has just come out with a warning that Japan and Taiwan should not restart negotiations on any fishing activitie...
2012.10.19
Tourism figures show improvement on year-to-year [Business News]
Officials at the Okinawa Prefecture Culture, Tourism and Sports Division cautiously optimistic when, on October 15, they announced numbers of tourists who visited Okinawa during th...
Peeping camera found in Kadena Michi-no Eki bathroom [News]
leaning staff at Kadena Michi-no Eki just outside KAB fence in Yara district of Kadena Town discovered a miniature camera that had been used to film people using a bathroom on the ...
Two sailors arrested for allegedly raping woman [News]
Two U.S. sailors have been arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman in her 20s. Okinawa Police are withholding many details for the moment, but say the rape took...
Former Senkaku owner wants ICJ to determine sovereignty [News]
As tensions escalate between China, Taiwan and Japan over ownership and sovereignty of the uninhabited Senkaku islets in the far southern region of Okinawa Prefecture, the former o...
Police bike, bicycle crash [News]
イruma Police announced that a 36-year-old police officer riding on his motorcycle crashed with a bicycle at a crossing in Uruma City at night on Oct. 6, and two junior high school ...
2012.10.12
Ospreys on Futenma flightline, ready to work [Military News]
The MV-22 Ospreys have only been on Okinawa less than two weeks, but already the flight operations coordinators are getting them ready for workouts on Okinawa, and on the mainland....
Ospreys already stir concerns over flight patterns [Military News]
The MV-22 Osprey is barely ready to begin operations from Futenma Marine Corps Air Station in Ginowan City, but already it’s raising new ire from citizens from Kochi to Okinawa ove...
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