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Okinawa marks 53rd anniversary of revers… [Politics]
May 15th marked the 53rd anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to the Japanese administration in 1972. According to published figures, the Japa...Read More
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
LDP, New Komeito name candidates for Naha mayoral election [Politics]
The LDP Okinawa Chapter held its first meeting of the Naha Mayor Selection Committee, Tuesday. At the meeting, the committee members presented a list of five possible candidates. ...
Shokichi Kina to run in November gubernatorial race [Politics]
The Okinawa Democratic Party of Japan announced its intention to field a candidate, Shokichi Kina, a former member of the House of Councilors, in the gubernatorial race on Nov. 16t...
Futenma’s replacement heating up political landscape [Politics]
Okinawa’s gubernatorial election is now two months away, and Governor Hirokazu Nakaima’s challenger says he’ll vigorously oppose the planned project to relocate the controversial F...
Suga wows government goal to stop Futenma operations by 2019 [Politics]
Visiting Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told Governor Hirokazu Nakaima during their meeting, Wednesday, that the Japanese government aims to stop the use of MCAS Futenma in...
Onaga supporters launch Election Office in Kumoji [Politics]
The constituent body supporting Takeshi Onaga has set up an office, with a slogan “Peace, Abundance with Pride! Hiyamikachi, Umanchu-no Kai.” The new office was opened on Tuesday ...
Onna Village Mayor to seek fourth term in January [Politics]
Onna Village Mayor Fumiyasu Shikiya expressed his intention at the Village Assembly, Sep. 16th, to seek a fourth term in the office in the next village mayoral election in January....
Naha Mayor Selection Committee backs Vice-Mayor Mikiko Shiroma [Politics]
With Takeshi Onaga now running in the November gubernatorial race, Naha City has to hold a Mayoral Election on the same day. Five of Naha Assembly parties supporting incumbent Mayo...
LDP, opposition parties disagree on elections’ impact [Politics]
The local Liberal Democratic Party and its opposition are many kilometers apart on how Sunday’s local assembly elections will sway voters in the months and elections ahead. Anti-ad...
Governor shrugs off Nago election results [Politics]
From Governor Hirokazu Nakaima’s desk, the results of Sunday’s assembly election in Nago City is nothing to get excited about. In his eyes, the airfield replacement project in Nago...
Onaga makes it clear; will run for governor’s seat [Politics]
Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga announced today that he will run in the Nov. 16 gubernatorial election. The announcement has been widely expected as Onaga has been actively promotion his ...
Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs visits Okinawa [Politics]
Shunichi Yamaguchi, the Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, came for a two-day visit to Okinawa, Tuesday, and met Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima at t...
2014.09.10
Election results signal possible rough road ahead for Henoko [Politics]
The ballots for Sunday’s assembly seats election are counted, and the results –at least in Nago City—do not bode well for the plans now under way to relocate Futenma Marine Corps A...
Incumbents keep seats in Okinawa local elections [Politics]
The ballots of the Okinawa local elections 2014 at five cities, six towns and 13 villages throughout the prefecture were counted yesterday, expect for Taketomi Town. All of 337 se...
Okinawa local Election Day today [Politics]
Today is the Election Day of the local elections 2014. The voting has started at five citiessix6 towns and 13 villages throughout the prefecture. The ballots will be counted to day...
Members of new Abe Cabinet related to Okinawa [Politics]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe carried out his first Cabinet reshuffle, Sep. 3rd, his first since forming his cabinet in December 2012. As personnel related to Okinawa, Abe appointed th...
Large-scale demonstration in Henoko slated again for Sep. 20th [Politics]
Okinawan diet members and representatives of the four opposition parties in the Prefecture Assembly have decided to hold anoteher large demonstration against the construction of th...
Prefecture Assembly parties demand stop to Henoko survey [Politics]
The Okinawa Prefecture Assembly adopted a written statement, Wednesday, demanding an immediate end to the drilling survey that has been going on off Henoko in Nago. The survey is c...
Okinawa local election campaigns start [Politics]
The start of local election campaigns in five cities in the prefecture was officially announced Aug. 31st . with starting of the campaigns of council members candidates of Nago, ...
Japan hears U.S. cautions over handling Futenma [Politics]
Fearful of increased local opposition to the relocation of Futenma Marine Corps Air Station, a U.S. congressional think tank is speaking out to both Japanese and American governmen...
Battle lines drawn to define fall gubernatorial election [Politics]
The upcoming Okinawa gubernatorial election is beginning to shape up as both an ideological battle and a time of mud-slinging by the three candidates who appear to be the combatant...
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