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SUSUMU INAMINE

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 5, 2018
Election victory in Nago seen as LDP win but new mayor may prove tough to crack
Sunday's victory in the Nago mayoral election by a candidate who appears to favor the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the city's Henoko district is widely seen as a political victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a defeat for anti-base advocates in Okinawa, starting with Gov. Takeshi Onaga.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 5, 2018
Incumbent Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine falls in closely watched Okinawa election
In a political victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a defeat for anti-U.S. base forces in Okinawa, incumbent Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine failed in his re-election bid Sunday night, losing to a candidate strongly backed by Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2017
Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine seeks third term, remains opposed to U.S. Okinawa base construction
Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine, who opposes a plan to relocate the operations of a key U.S. Marine Corps base to his city in Okinawa, said Wednesday he will seek a third four-year term.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 21, 2016
Diet surrounded by 28,000 as synchronized protests in Japan rip Futenma base move in Okinawa
Thousands of protesters surround the Diet to oppose the long-fought plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma as simultaneous rallies take place nationwide.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 18, 2016
Nago to build new spring stadium for Fighters
After spending the first half of their spring training in Arizona this year, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have learned that starting in 2020, the team will have a new training base.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 22, 2014
Okinawa mayor invokes red tape, dugong deaths to stop U.S. base
Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine acknowledges his failure so far to prevent the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to ecologically sensitive land in his city.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 18, 2014
In NYC, Nago mayor reiterates opposition to base
The mayor of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, repeated his opposition Saturday in New York to the plan for moving U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to his town.
JAPAN
May 13, 2014
Inamine to lead anti-base group to Washington
Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine will lead a delegation of Okinawa residents and politicians to Washington on Thursday, as tensions rise between the mayor and the central government over the plan to build a U.S. military replacement base in the city's Henoko district.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 24, 2014
Abe Futenma plan hailed by Nakaima
Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima welcomed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement Thursday that he would seek U.S. President Barack Obama's cooperation in closing U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa within five years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 25, 2014
Okinawa assembly probes why Nakaima reversed base stance
A special investigative committee of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly met last week and early this week to determine why Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima reversed his campaign pledge to get U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma moved outside Okinawa.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 13, 2014
Nago mayor remains defiant over Futenma plan
Susumu Inamine, mayor of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, vowed Thursday to use every weapon in his arsenal to block the central government's efforts to construct a replacement base in his city for the U.S. Futenma airfield.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 3, 2014
Nago assembly tells Nakaima to revoke landfill approval for base
The municipal assembly of Nago, Okinawa, adopted a statement by a majority vote Monday protesting Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima's approval of offshore land fill work for a new U.S. airstrip, demanding he retract the OK.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Jan 20, 2014
Base setback denied after Nago poll
Tokyo and Okinawa's unrepentant governor insist a replacement base for the U.S. will be built as scheduled despite the re-election of Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine over the weekend.
EDITORIALS
Jan 20, 2014
Okinawan voters send a message
The incumbent mayor of Nago, Okinawa, has won re-election on a platform that includes opposition to a government plan to relocate the functions of a U.S. Marine air base to the Henoko district of the city.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 19, 2014
Nago mayor wins re-election in blow to Abe, U.S.
Nago voters return Mayor Susumu Inamine for a second term, dealing a setback to Tokyo's plans to build a long-sought air base for the United States.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 19, 2014
Nago voters cast ballots on base fate
Nago voters head to the polls to pick a mayor who might be able to put the Futenma base relocation issue to rest.
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.
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Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.
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Hybrid work takes root in Japan, survey finds
A dealer works in the trading room at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo on March 28. An overwhelming majority of respondents who currently work remotely in some capacity say they wish to continue to do so.
Shohei Ohtani signs deal with sports technology company Rapsodo
Shohei Ohtani has been appointed as the new technology ambassador for Rapsodo, the company announced Monday.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.

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