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OKINAWA SC

Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2013
Abe firm on Futenma but vows respite
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that his government will make efforts to ease Okinawa's burden of hosting the bulk of U.S. military bases in Japan and promote the prefecture's economic development.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2013
U.S. airman found guilty of injuring boy in Okinawa
The Naha District Court sentenced a U.S. airman to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for intruding into an apartment, injuring a junior high school boy and destroying a TV set during a drunken spress last November in Okinawa.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 12, 2013
Futenma replacement to stay in Okinawa: Abe
Despite the outcry in Okinawa, replacing U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma with a new base outside the prefecture will be difficult given Japan's worsening security environment, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2013
Abe plan for sovereignty day fete irks Okinawans
The prime minister's declaration of a ceremony to commemorate the 1952 end of the Allied Occupation and restoration of Japan's sovereignty strikes a sore nerve in Okinawa.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2013
2020 eyed for Okinawa marine shift
The U.S. military aims to complete the redeployment to Guam of marine elements now in Okinawa by 2020, according to recent congressional testimony by Adm. Samuel Locklear, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, and other sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 7, 2013
Jurors stress 'fairness' of sentences for rapists
After helping deliver prison sentences Friday to two U.S. servicemen guilty of rape, lay judges in a high-profile trial in Okinawa said they suppressed personal emotions to keep their judgment unclouded by anger toward the U.S. military bases in the prefecture.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2013
U.S. sailors get nine, 10 years for rape
Two U.S. sailors were given prison terms of nine and 10 years on Friday for raping and injuring a Japanese woman in her 20s in Okinawa in October.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 1, 2013
Fifth Okinawa fest celebrates community films
Since its start in 2009, the Okinawa International Movie Festival has been more than its name implies. It has the usual competition sections: one called Laugh for comedies and another called Peace for dramas, though not all the films fit neatly into these two bins. But it has also been a promo event for the mostly comic talent of the giant Yoshimoto agency, the festival's organizer and main sponsor.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 27, 2013
Sailors plead guilty to Okinawa rape
Two U.S. sailors pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping and injuring a woman in her 20s in Okinawa last October.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2013
Anti-Osprey group set to disband
Saying it has "served a certain mission," the organizing committee of a major rally against the deployment last year of MV-22 Ospreys to a U.S. air base in Okinawa announced Friday it will disband.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 22, 2013
Naha court says no need for new environmental assessment of Futenma base replacement site
The focus of the lawsuit was whether the court would approve the right of about 620 plaintiffs living around Nago, the envisioned relocation site of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, to express opinions about the plan in the environmental assessment procedure.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2013
Outsiders key to resolving Futenma: analyst
With both Japan and the United States unlikely to soon seek new solutions to the stalled relocation of the Futenma air station in Okinawa, progress might be better achieved through discussions by nongovernmental experts, according to a U.S. analyst.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2013
Rare Okinawa plants transplanted due to helipad projects perish: papers
Over 60 percent of rare plant species, including endangered ones, that were transplanted due to the construction of U.S. military helicopter landing and takeoff sites in Okinawa have died, documents showed Sunday.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2013
U.S. report to deny Agent Orange in Okinawa
A Pentagon probe into the presence of Agent Orange in Okinawa is set to support veterans' allegations of the clandestine burial of harmful chemicals — but deny the defoliant was among them.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2013
Okinawa leaders urge Abe to remove Osprey
About 30 municipal heads in Okinawa urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday to rescind the government's approval of the MV-22 Osprey deployment at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2013
U.S. sailor arrested for trespassing
A 20-year-old U.S. Navy sailor was arrested Monday on suspicion of trespassing at a house in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jan 19, 2013
Impossible forests where tides ebb and flow
A ripple flows gently inland across an expanse of dark-gray mud. It washes in, then drains back, dampening the surface; it briefly fills, then empties from, tiny holes made by innumerable small crabs. The ebb is over, and the flow tide has begun.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jan 8, 2013
From Taiji to Okinawa, readers dissect some issues of 2012
In the first of our new Community Chest letters columns, we bring together a selection of mails received in response to some of the final Community stories of 2012.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2012
Scholar tries to ease Okinawa's U.S. pains
Three years ago, Robert Eldridge gave up his associate professorship at Osaka University to work on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa. He said he thought he could make bigger contributions to U.S.-Japan relations in the prefecture than by teaching about the U.S.-Japan alliance to students at the school.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 13, 2012
Getting away from it all on Aguni Island
I set out for the hospital lecture hall in high spirits, looking forward to a relaxing, refreshing stay on this tiny and seemingly uncrowded island.
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.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
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.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
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.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
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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