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Futenma base foes gird for battle [Politics]
Opponents of the plan for relocating Futenma Marine Corps Air Station from Ginowan City to the Henoko district of northern Okinawa’s Nago C...Read More
Oliver Stone visiting Okinawa to discuss… [Politics]
American director, producer and screenwriter will be joining a former Okinawa governor and two other panelists on Wednesday, August 14th, to...Read More
Governor names replacement for disgraced vice governor Mitsuo Ageda [Politics]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga picked up Friday a successor to Vice Governor Mitsuo Ageda, who resigned last month over a scandal, in which he was accused of pressing the Prefectur...
Matsumoto wins second term as Urasoe mayor [Politics]
Tetsuji Matsumoto, the incumbent Urasoe mayor won a second term in the office in the Urasoe mayoral election held Sunday. 49-year-old Masumoto ran as an independent but was backed ...
Onaga continues to oppose deployment of Ospreys [Politics]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga faced the media on Monday for an interview just before the second anniversary of his forst term in the office. Onaga took over the Office of Governor...
Okinawa files appeal on high court Henoko ruling [Politics]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga filed an appeal Friday against a high court ruling that deemed illegal his refusal to withdraw his order to revoke a Henoko landfill permit that had ...
Yonaguni Town Council to add four more members [Politics]
Yonaguni Town Council has unanimously approved a revision bill to change the number of town council from 6 to 10. The council approved the resolution at its regular Sep. meeting on...
Shimajiri to be assistant to Okinawa Affairs Minister [Politics]
According to press reports, the Japanese government is making arrangements to create a special assistant position to Aiko Shimajiri, the former Minister of State for Okinawa and No...
Japan Government puts screws on Okinawa on Henoko [Politics]
In a reversal of previous statements, the Japanese government seems to have taken the gloves off in dealing with the MCAS Futenma relocation issue. In addition to the government re...
Less than half of 18-19-year-olds cast votes last weekend [Politics]
The Okinawa Prefecture Election Board announced that 46.7 percent of the newly enfranchised 18 and 19-year-olds used their votes, which is clearly less than the participation rate ...
Ruling coalition wins landslide; trounced in Okinawa [Politics]
Japan conducted its election of the upper house of it parliament, the Diet, Sunday, in which half of its 242 seats were for grabs, and the results were an expected landslide for th...
Tomigusuku mayor wants to change June 19 demo site [Politics]
Tomigusuku Mayor Haruki Gibo has requested to All-Okinawa Council, the organizer of the planned Jun. 19 large-scale demonstration against the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, to ...
Henoko opposition wins big in prefecture assembly election [Politics]
Opponents of the relocation of MCAS Futenma to Henoko got a boost in Sunday’s prefectural assembly election, in which the anti-base camp added four seats to their majority that now...
Scholars, peace activists call for closing bases on Okinawa [Politics]
About 80 scholars, peace activists and others in the United States have sent a letter to the U.S. government, calling for closing American military bases on Okinawa and withdrawing...
Okinawa Assembly election campaigns started Friday [Politics]
The election campaign of candidates for the 12th Okinawa Prefecture Assembly officially started on May 27th when the term of the last assembly expired. 71 hopefuls from 13 electora...
Okinawa plans for another large demonstration in June [Politics]
As an estimated 250 people staged a demonstration at Kadena Air Base Gate 1 on Friday, and an even larger rally at the same place, to which organizers hope to attract 2,500 people,...
Abe-Obama meeting irks Governor Onaga [Politics]
After learning about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s remarks on the Henoko relocation plan at his meeting with the U.S. President Batack Obama, Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga issued a ...
Survey confirms majority of residents oppose Henoko plan [Politics]
According to a survey, more than 58 percent of Okinawan residents oppose the relocation of the MCAS Futenma to Henoko. Results of the prefecture-commissioned survey were made publi...
Eriko Imai of pop group SPEED to run in Upper House election [Politics]
Eriko Imai, a member of the Okinawan all-female pop group SPEED is set to tun as a candidate representing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the upcoming Upper House election e...
Incumbent mayor wins second term in Ginowan [Politics]
In a closely watched election, incumbent 51-year-old Atsushi Sakima won a second term in the office against his sole challenger 63-year-old former senior prefecture official Keiich...
OPG takes Tokyo to court over Henoko plan [Politics]
The fight over the MCAS Futenma relocation to Henoko again escalated as the Okinawa Prefectural Government took the central government to the court after the legal moves the centra...
Money and promises flow over Henoko plan [Politics]
Demonstrations and public opposition to the Henoko plan are well documented in daily TV news, but for many businesses building the Futenma replacement facility to Henoko would mean...
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