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HIROKAZU NAKAIMA

Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2013
Okinawa base foes protest governor's OK of offshore fill work for Futenma replacement
Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima's approval Friday of the start of offshore fill work for building an airstrip to replace U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma angered people opposed to the base to the point that around 1,000 protesters forced their way into the prefectural office and staged a sit-in.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 25, 2013
Nakaima cuts deal with Abe
Tokyo agrees to launch negotiations with Washington on a new pact that would effectively revise the framework for keeping U.S. forces in Okinawa.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 24, 2013
Moving Futenma out of Okinawa 'not wise,' ex-Pentagon official warns
A former U.S. Defense Department official said Monday that the Futenma base should be relocated within Okinawa in line with the current bilateral accord, and that moving the facility outside the island prefecture is "not wise."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2013
Japan mulls talks with U.S. on earlier relocation of Futenma air base
Tokyo may propose to Washington discussions on an earlier than scheduled relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture, government sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 17, 2013
Japan P.M. vows to stimulate Okinawa economy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expresses his resolve at a meeting with Okinawa officials to allocate as much money as possible in next year's budget to promote the prefecture's economy.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2013
Pro-base candidates stay in Nago race
Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima continues to call for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, in central Okinawa, to be relocated outside the prefecture despite growing pressure to OK a project to fill in coastal areas in the Henoko district of Nago to accommodate the planned replacement airstrip's runways.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 20, 2013
Nago base rebuff heaps more pressure on Nakaima
With two months to go until its mayoral election, the Okinawa city of Nago said Tuesday it will formally request Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima not to approve an application to start dumping land into the sea off its Henoko coast for the planned replacement base for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2013
Nakaima defies Nago base plan advocates
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.
JAPAN / Politics
May 16, 2013
DPJ's Hosono meets with Okinawa governor on reversion day
DPJ Secretary General Goshi Hosono meets Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima on the 41st anniversary of the prefecture's return to Japan, suggesting his party seeks to ease Okinawa's U.S. base burden.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 7, 2013
Onodera, Nakaima discuss U.S. base plan
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera sought support Saturday from Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima for a plan to return a number of U.S. military facilities in the prefecture to Japanese control.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2013
Abe exploiting chink in base opposition?
Tokyo's request to begin landfill work in Okinawa was a calculated move that came amid signs that opposition to a contentious U.S. military base might be softening.
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A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
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A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
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Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
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A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
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Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
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