October 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Regarding a call, that is potentially a dugong call, recorded in February this year in Oura Bay, Henoko, Nago City, where Futenma Replacement Facility construction is ongoing, on October 15 the Ministry of Defense (MOD) released the statement that it “cannot submit voice data” to National Diet members, and showed no intention of releasing the recorded voice to the public.
Also on October 15, the Okinawa U.S. military base issues Diet discussion...
October 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Itoman – Itoman city council unanimously passed an official written opinion requesting that the Okinawan government and Okinawa prefectural assembly enact regulations banning cockfighting. City councilor Satoru Kinjo submitted the statement. The same city council...
October 8, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 7, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki, Okinawa Fisheries Cooperative Association President Kameichi Uehara, and Okinawa Prefectural Fisheries Cooperative Presidents’ Association President Takao Yamanoha had interviews with Chief Cabinet Secretary Katunobu...
October 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
The Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) has recently announced that one part of the land reclamation work for Futenma Replacement Facility construction in Henoko, Nago City, was finished. In response to this, on October 1 Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki stated...
October 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ginowan – On September 29, Masanori Matsugawa, mayor of Ginowan City, spoke at City Hall about how it has been eight years since the deployment of MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to Futenma Air Station. He called for “halving the number of...
September 24, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The “We don’t need a missile base Miyakojima resident liaison council,” (Seihan Nakazato, representative) which is made up of citizens groups from the Miyako region, submitted a request to Okinawa Prefecture asking the government to not allow the Japanese...
September 24, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 23, Okinawa Prefecture and the Cabinet Office’s Okinawa General Bureau signed a memorandum to procure large-diameter logs for the reconstruction of Shurijo Castle, which was destroyed in a fire last October. The Okinawa General Bureau will determine...
September 24, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 23, in the final regular meeting for the month of the Nago City Assembly (chaired by Hideki Oshiro), the Assembly adopted, by a majority, a 2020 general accounting and finance supplementary budget. The supplemented sum is 2,154,370,000 yen. The...
September 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – The Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) National Defense Legislator’s Alliance (NDLA, former Director General of the Japan Defense Agency Seishiro Eto, chairman) authored a proposal September 17, calling for added maintenance and expansion of the...
September 19, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September19, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki and Taro Kono, who was recently appointed Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, met at the Okinawa Prefectural Office. The governor presented Minister Kono with a letter listing 19 requests...
September17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
In the early morning hours of September 17, at his inaugural interview, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said, concerning relocation of Futenma Air Station to Henoko, Nago City, “On the basis of the principle that there is one sole solution,...
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