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Residents of Japanese island will vote on Sunday about controversial plan to move US military base
What is happening? Voters on the Japanese island of Okinawa will vote this weekend in a referendum on the relocation of a US military base. They are expected to overwhelmingly reject it, but the (...)
Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island.
Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa have taken part in one of the biggest protests against US military bases in recent years, (...)
Many visitors stay for a prolonged period, become regular visitors or even completely relocate to Okinawa, as Aihara and Kamoshita did a few years ago.
Not many people outside Japan have even heard of the place called Okinawa, a semi-tropical archipelago of numerous islands with unique and (...)
It is time activists across the globe extended solidarity to those protesting to prevent the construction of a new military base in Okinawa, who are haunted by their memories.
The history of Okinawa, a group of small islands located in the East China Sea, is not known to many. Before it was (...)
LDP Okinawa chapter backs Futenma base relocation within Okinawa
NAHA — The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)’s Okinawa prefectural chapter unanimously approved a plan on Dec. 1 to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from the densely populated residential area of Ginowan in (...)
OKINAWA — An environmentalist here has voiced concerns that a controversial state secrets bill might enable the government to hide the truth behind environmental pollution, such as highly toxic dioxins at the site of a former United States military base in Okinawa that may have originated from (...)
Pair of pro base-relocation candidates likely to split Nago mayoral race vote
NAGO, Okinawa — There are now two men in favor of relocating U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to this city running for Nago mayor against the anti-relocation incumbent, a development likely to split the (...)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura instructed the Okinawa prefectural education board Friday to take action over the refusal by a small town school board to adopt a conservative junior high civics textbook.
For the second school year in a row, Taketomi town has rejected a (...)
Nakaima defies Nago base plan advocates
OSAKA — Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima resisted pressure Tuesday by Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera to allow the Futenma base relocation to move forward.
But Nakaima, who must decide whether to approve a central (...)
Okinawans protest against deployment of additional Ospreys
GINOWAN, Okinawa — Protesters assembled in front of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma here on Aug. 12 to express their opposition to the deployment of additional MV-22 Osprey aircraft following the fatal crash of a U.S. military (...)
Okinawa dump site may be proof of Agent Orange: experts — Dioxin spike raises fears of local health risks
The recent discovery of 22 barrels buried on former U.S. military land in the city of Okinawa could be posing the same level of risks to local residents as dioxin hot spots in Vietnam where (...)
A drop in the ocean: the sea-dumping of chemical weapons in Okinawa
Accounts by U.S. veterans in the accompanying feature of tons of chemical weapons being dumped off Okinawa in autumn 1969 are the first time such revelations have been made public – but in fact they tally entirely with the (...)
NAHA, OKINAWA PREF. — Okinawans are losing patience with TokyoÅfs repeated vows to reduce the prefecture’s burden of hosting U.S. military installations and other hollow pledges, and some are seriously looking into the possibility of having the territory secede from Japan.
On May 15, the 41st (...)
Okinawa marks 68th anniversary of end of WWII battle
NAHA (Kyodo) — Okinawa marked the 68th anniversary Sunday of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, a World War II ground battle that claimed more than 200,000 lives, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledging to ease the concentration of U.S. bases (...)
NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) — People gathered at rallies across Japan on Sunday to protest against the central government’s commemoration of the day Japan recovered its sovereignty in 1952 after its defeat in World War II.
In Okinawa Prefecture, which was left under U.S. control for another 20 years, (...)
Okinawa governor to skip state sovereignty ceremony
NAHA OKINAWA PREF. — Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima will not attend a government-sponsored ceremony to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the countryÅfs restoration of sovereignty after its defeat in World War II, officials said Wednesday. (...)
Introduction by Gavan McCormack
For a number of years, The Asia-Pacific Journal has paid attention to Okinawa as the point where major contradictions within the national, regional, and global system are sharpest, and to Okinawan civil society as the seed-bed of some of the most advanced (...)
Okinawa leaders protest in Tokyo over Osprey deployment
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Leaders of all 41 municipalities of Okinawa Prefecture gathered in Tokyo on Sunday to protest the deployment of tilt-rotor Osprey transport aircraft at a U.S. base in the southern prefecture.
The group of about 140 people, (...)
OKINAWA, Okinawa Pref. – For nearly 70 years, Okinawa has gotten more than its share of America’s military – more jets rattling homes, more crimes rattling nerves.
It was the site of a horrific land battle in World War II. It endured 27 years under U.S. administration and continues to host (...)
Japan protests rape incident, Okinawa seeks stern U.S. response
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan lodged a protest Wednesday with the United States over the alleged rape of a Japanese woman by two U.S. Navy sailors in Okinawa, demanding the enforcement of stricter discipline and implementation of (...)
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