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Backed by about 93,000 signatures from residents of Okinawa, Jinshiro Motoyama and his civil organization pushed the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly last year to hold a referendum on a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. military base to the Henoko area by reclaiming land in ...
35Coffee: An inspired partnership between coffee and coral
35Coffee is using the profits from its coffee sales to plant new coral across Okinawa Prefecture
Mayor blasts Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki as Ginowan city abstains from vote on Henoko land reclamation
Amid long-standing political wrangling over construction of a new U.S. base in Okinawa, the mayor of the city of Ginowan in the prefecture has said the municipality will not participate in a prefectural referendum set to be held over reclamation of land in order ...
Japanese and American activists protest outside White House against building of U.S. base in Okinawa
About 30 activists gathered after a petition urging U.S. President Donald Trump to halt the work accumulated more than 195,000 signatures in 30 days.
Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May became the latest celebrity to weigh in Sunday on controversial construction work associated with the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture, a project that opponents say will endanger rare coral species. May took to social ...
The U.S. military will conduct this year its first ever missile drill around Okinawa, according to a report Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter an increasingly assertive China. The U.S. military has told the Self-Defense Forces that it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the ...
An Okinawan-Hawaiian activist said Friday he plans to hold a rally in front of the White House on Jan. 7 to put pressure on President Donald Trump's administration to intervene in the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base in Okinawa. On Dec. 8 Robert ...
Robert Kajiwara knew he did not have much time to act before construction work began for the controversial relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture. So the 32-year-old turned to the White House's We the People petition website as a last ...
Petition calling for halt to Okinawa base work meets threshold to warrant White House reply
A petition to Washington that calls for a temporary halt to reclamation work for the construction of a U.S. base off Okinawa hit the signature threshold on Tuesday to warrant a response from the White House. Robert Kajiwara, a 32-year-old Japanese-American from Hawaii, started the ...
Japan begins filling in Henoko bay in Okinawa to make room for unpopular U.S. base
The pouring of soil and sand marks a new and significant phase in the relocation process for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya indicated Friday that the return of land occupied by a key U.S. military base in Okinawa will likely not be realized by fiscal 2022, despite the start the same day of full-fledged land reclamation work to build its replacement facility. "It ...
A high court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that found a prominent anti-U.S. military base activist in Okinawa guilty of several criminal offenses committed during protests in the island prefecture. Hiroji Yamashiro, 66, a key figure in the movement against the relocation of ...
