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TAKESHI ONAGA

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2017
Okinawa honors war dead on 72nd anniversary of fierce WWII ground battle
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.
EDITORIALS
May 20, 2017
Okinawa reversion, 45 years on
Nearly five decades after America handed Okinawa back to Japan, the prefecture continues to host a lopsidedly heavy U.S. military presence.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2017
Government threatens to seek damages from Onaga if resistance to Futenma base transfer continues
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.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 22, 2017
Okinawa governor to join local rally to protest planned U.S. base in Nago
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 26, 2017
Kishida pledges to help Okinawa reel in more foreign tourists
In a meeting with Gov. Takeshi Onaga, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida vowed Sunday to support efforts to attract more foreign tourists to Okinawa Prefecture
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2017
Protests erupt as work resumes on Futenma air base replacement in Okinawa
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 3, 2017
Onaga looks to Trump for change in U.S. policy on bases
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.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 1, 2017
Okinawa governor arrives in Washington to voice U.S. base grievances
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2016
Work resumes on replacement site for U.S. base in Okinawa
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 26, 2016
Okinawa governor retracts decision blocking U.S. Futenma base relocation
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga on Monday rescinded an action aimed at blocking the relocation of the Futenma air base within the prefecture, a step crucial to enabling the central government to resume construction work, sources close to the matter said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2016
U.S. resumes Osprey operations in Okinawa despite lingering concerns after accident
The U.S. military fully resumes Osprey operations in Okinawa, spurring a sharp local reaction less than a week after one of the tilt-rotor transport aircraft made a crash-landing off the prefecture's coast.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 13, 2016
Government dismayed by Okinawa governor's plan to skip land return event
The central government expressed dismay Tuesday over Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's plan to skip a ceremony next week marking the return of a large section of a U.S. military training area to Japanese control.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2016
Okinawa set to lose lawsuit filed by state over U.S. base relocation
The Supreme Court will not hold a hearing to review a lower court ruling that backed the central government's move to relocate the Futenma air base within Okinawa, making it certain the prefecture will lose its case, sources said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2016
Okinawa governor guardedly hopeful Trump will reduce U.S. base presence
The governor of Okinawa expressed guarded hope Wednesday that Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election may lead to a reduced military presence in the prefecture, where most U.S. military facilities in Japan are located.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 21, 2016
Okinawa, Osaka governors at odds over police officer's insult
An ethnic slur hurled by a riot police officer at a group of anti-base protesters in Okinawa has sparked a bitter exchange between the governor of the prefecture and his counterpart in Osaka, from where the officer was dispatched.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2016
Japan seeks return of large parcel of U.S. military land in Okinawa by year-end: Suga
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the top government spokesman, said Saturday that the government is seeking the return of a portion of a large U.S. military training area in Okinawa Prefecture by year-end.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 24, 2016
Inada seeks support from Okinawa governor over U.S. base relocation
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada on Saturday sought support from Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga over a plan to relocate a U.S. air base within the island prefecture, even as the dispute between Tokyo and Okinawa over the issue is set to be contested in the Supreme Court.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2016
Okinawa appeals Futenma base landfill ruling
The Okinawa Prefectural Government on Friday appealed a high court ruling that said its cancellation of landfill work for the central government’s effort to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is illegal.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 16, 2016
High court rules Okinawa governor's order to stop U.S. base work 'illegal'
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court finds Gov. Takeshi Onaga's cancellation of a landfill work order contravened the law.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2016
In bid to block Nago base construction, Okinawa governor may nix coral transplant
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga is considering rejecting the state's plan to transplant corals from waters off a planned U.S. base construction site in the northern part of Okinawa Island to another location, in the latest move to thwart the construction, a prefectural official said Tuesday.
'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.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
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.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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