Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera seeks to persuade the Okinawa Prefectural Government to permit Osprey flights despite strong local concern about the aircraft’s safety.
Three months after the Okinawa Defense Bureau started seawall construction off the coast of Nago in Okinawa's Henoko district, work to build a replacement facility for a U.S. military base in Ginowan is moving forward — and along with it, renewed legal and political ...
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga on Friday called on Tokyo to pressure Washington to stop conducting parachuting drills at Kadena Air Base because they apparently violate a 1996 Japan-U.S. accord. The use of the U.S. Air Force base for the drills was supposed to be an ...
Okinawa on Friday marked 72 years since the end of a fierce World War II ground battle that killed a quarter of its civilian population, as resentment continues to run deep over the heavy concentration of U.S. military bases there. Touching on a U.S. Osprey ...
Nearly five decades after America handed Okinawa back to Japan, the prefecture continues to host a lopsidedly heavy U.S. military presence.
The central government may seek damages from Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga if he continues to attempt to impede the relocation of an unpopular U.S. military base in the prefecture, the government's top spokesman hinted Monday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the remarks after Onaga ...
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga will join a rally later this week to protest the relocation of a U.S. military base's operations within the prefecture, a prefectural government source has said. Onaga, who was elected on an anti-base platform in 2014, was last year forced to ...
In a meeting with Gov. Takeshi Onaga, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida vowed Sunday to support efforts to attract more foreign tourists to Okinawa Prefecture "Okinawa can be a model" for other governments trying to invite foreign tourists and investment to boost local economic growth, Kishida ...
Government workers on Monday resumed offshore work off the coast of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, to build the replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma as protesters gathered to halt the project. Some 100 protesters started gathering at dawn in front of the gate ...
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga expressed hope Thursday that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will adopt a new policy toward U.S. military bases on the island prefecture. Referring to the drastic changes Trump has made since taking office on Jan. 20, Onaga said in ...
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga arrived in the United States on Tuesday, aiming to convey to President Donald Trump's administration local opposition to a plan to relocate a U.S. airbase within the southern island prefecture. It is the third visit by Onaga to Washington since he ...
The central government on Tuesday resumed construction work suspended since March at the replacement site in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, for the U.S. Futenma base. The move came a day after Gov. Takeshi Onaga rescinded an action aimed at blocking the work following his recent defeat ...
