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The government of Okinawa on Thursday submitted to the local assembly a bill proposing a referendum on the controversial plan to relocate a key U.S. military base within the southern island prefecture. The bill is likely to be approved by the prefectural assembly, where a ...
Fate of U.S. base remains unresolved after Okinawa assembly elections
Voters in 25 Okinawan cities, towns and villages went to the polls Sunday to elect assembly members ahead of the Sept. 30 gubernatorial race, including the closely watched match in Nago, where the results failed to deliver a clear verdict on a controversial U.S. ...
Abe's pick for Okinawa governor race silent on U.S. Futenma base relocation
A candidate running in Okinawa's gubernatorial election this month with the backing of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Liberal Democratic Party did not clarify his stance on the most contentious issue when releasing his campaign pledges Monday. Atsushi Sakima, the former mayor of Ginowan, ...
Denny Tamaki, successor-designate of late anti-base governor, declares candidacy in Okinawa race
Lawmaker Denny Tamaki, who was reportedly designated by Okinawa’s late anti-U.S. base governor, Takeshi Onaga, as his successor, formally declared his candidacy for the gubernatorial election.
Liberal Party exec Denny Tamaki eyes run for Okinawa governor
Lawmaker Denny Tamaki hinted he might enter the Okinawa gubernatorial race next month at the request of a group opposed to the relocation of a U.S. military base.
70,000 protest U.S. base plan in honor of late Okinawa governor
The rally took place just days after the death of Gov. Takeshi Onaga, who fiercely opposed the plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Nago.
Gov. Takeshi Onaga's death muddles long-standing U.S. base relocation plan in Okinawa
The passing of the late governor came less than two weeks after he announced he was revoking predecessor Hirokazu Nakaima's 2013 approval of a permit for the Henoko project.
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga died Wednesday evening at age 67 following hospitalization related to pancreatic cancer. The death of the governor, who had been ill for many months and who underwent surgery in April to remove a cancerous tumor, comes just days after he ordered ...
Okinawa's governor moves to retract landfill work approval needed to move Futenma base
The order is seen as a last-ditch effort to block the central government’s long-delayed plan to move the unpopular base.
Protest held at sea in Okinawa against land reclamation work for U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma base
Okinawa residents held a protest demonstration at sea Monday against scheduled land reclamation work for the relocation of a U.S. military base within Japan's southernmost island prefecture. While the full-fledged landfill work for moving U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is expected to start as ...
The government said Tuesday it will start earth-filling work on Aug. 17 at a planned U.S. military base site in Okinawa Prefecture. The Defense Ministry's Okinawa Defense Bureau notified the prefectural government of the scheduled work in Nago in the Henoko coastal area, the relocation ...
