April 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tomohiro Yara, 56, is a freelance journalist and a new independent candidate in the Lower House by-election in the Okinawa No. 3 district backed by the “All Okinawa” camp.
He won in the by-election held on April 21 after Denny Tamaki resigned the seat in his successful bid in the Okinawa gubernatorial race.
The vote was closed at 8:00 p.m. on April 21 and the votes were counted on the same day.
Constituents in the Okinawa No....
April 11, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – Representatives from the Japanese government, the Okinawa prefectural government, and Ginowan City met April 10 at the prime ministers offices for a conference to further the lessening of the burden brought by MCAS Futenma.
At the conference, the...
April 12, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
In 2018, Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture received 684 complaints pertaining to the aircraft noise from the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
This is a record high since Ginowan City began accepting complaints in 2002.
The number of complaints...
April 15, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On April 13 the dead bodies of a U.S. Navy sailor assigned to a Marine unit in Okinawa and a Japanese woman were found in an apartment in Kuwae, Chatan Town. It appears the sailor fatally stabbed the woman and killed himself. Okinawa Governor Denny...
April 8, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Junnichi Maeshiro
When the Ministry of Defense was still in the stage of planning to deploy a security force in Miyako, local residents demanded that missiles not be stored at the deployment site. In response, the Ministry of Defense continually told residents...
On April 5, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Keiichi Ishii accepted the Ministry of Defense (MOD) Okinawa Defense Bureau’s (ODB’s) formal objection to the Okinawa Prefectural Government’s (OPG’s) revocation of the land reclamation permit for construction...
March 27, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 25 at a plenary session of the Iwate Prefectural Assembly, the ruling coalition including the Social Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party adopted by majority vote a written statement titled “Request that land reclamation work in Henoko...
March 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Prior to starting construction on the Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF) in Henoko, Nago City, the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) conducted a dugong survey and confirmed the presence of three dugong specimens.
Since construction in the ocean began the whereabouts...
March 18, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Recently it came to the Ryukyu Shimpo’s attention that due to an expanse of soft seafloor north of the land reclamation area, the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) has abandoned its plan to establish three “marine work yards” there, for construction of...
March 18, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yukito Toyama
U.S. military pilots who fly under the influence are not subject to Japanese law. On March 8, the Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee discussed the U.S. military’s exemption from most of Japan’s aviation laws.
Japan’s aviation...
March 6, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – The Japanese government passed a revision to a drone regulation law by executive order March 5, creating a no-fly zone for small-bodied drones in the airspace above Japanese Self Defense Force and U.S. military bases.
The...
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