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OKINAWA

Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 17, 2013
Armitage: Futenma 'Japan's responsibility'
The replacement of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa is "now the responsibility of the government of Japan" under the terms of a long-stalled agreement, according to former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 13, 2013
Patriot units to be deployed in Okinawa permanently
The government said Friday it will permanently deploy Patriot antimissile batteries in Okinawa amid repeated threats by North Korea to launch missiles that could strike anywhere in Japan.
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 Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 5, 2013
Okinawa U.S. land return plan inked
Tokyo and Washington agree on a road map for the reversion of five U.S. military facilities in Okinawa south of the Kadena base and vow to accelerate the handover.
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2013
Funds gripe snags SDF isle defense deployment
The Defense Ministry may have to abandon a plan to station a Ground Self-Defense Force coastal monitoring unit on Okinawa's Yonaguni Island because negotiations with the town over the price of land have deadlocked.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 5, 2013
U.S. land return timetable in works
Japan and the United States plan to disclose concrete plans Friday to return some of the land south of Kadena Air Base on Okinawa that's being used by the U.S. military, a Japanese government source said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2013
Timeline seen for Futenma land reversion
Tokyo and Washington plan to stipulate that the site of a contentious U.S. Marine Corps base in Okinawa be returned to Japan's control within nine years.
EDITORIALS
Mar 26, 2013
Push comes to shove on base issue
Given strong Okinawan opposition to a plan to move Futenma air station to Nago City, Tokyo should start talks with Washington to find a suitable relocation site outside Okinawa Prefecture.
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.
EDITORIALS
Mar 23, 2013
Ceremony insults Okinawans
On April 28 the Abe Cabinet will commemorate the day in 1952 that Japan got its sovereignty back. Don't look for many Okinawans at the ceremony.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 22, 2013
Ministry files to start work on Futenma's replacement
The Defense Ministry submits an application to Okinawa for land reclamation to build a controversial replacement for the U.S. Futenma air station.
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.
'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.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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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