November 6, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Shoichiro Yonamine
Just over a month since taking office, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki will set out on his first trip to the United States.
The newly elected governor will visit New York and Washington D.C. as part of a five-day trip from November 11-15.
While this part of the year is packed with duties such as year-end budget requests and prefectural assembly meetings, Governor Tamaki’s strong motivations are leading...
October 27, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Tokyo) On October 26, 110 administrative law experts from around the country published a statement criticizing the Okinawa Defense Bureau’s submission to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of a request for...
October 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
“Yes, yes, yes!” When her re-election was announced on television at 8:00 p.m., Mikiko Shiroma, 67, struck a victory pose, pumping her fist in the air.
Cheers and whistles erupted at her campaign office in Matsuyama, Naha...
October 17, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On October 17 starting at 4:40 p.m. Governor Denny Tamaki answered questions from a group of reporters at the Prefectural Office. He spoke about the central government’s request for an injunction to overturn revocation of the land reclamation...
October 16, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ayako Sakaguchi
On October 15, Okinawa Prefecture Nago City Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi declared he will work to remove all seven helipads within U.S. military Camp Schwab. During the city council plenary meeting, he declared he would “strongly appeal”...
October 12, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On the afternoon of October 12 at the Kantei, the prime minister’s official residence, for the first time since he assumed office Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki had a conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and...
October 10, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
An Okinawa prefectural funeral ceremony for former governor Takeshi Onaga was held on the evening of October 9 at the Okinawa Prefectural Budokan in Naha City.
Onaga, age 67 when he died, demanded that Japan find solutions to...
October 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
At 1:55 p.m. on October 4, Denny Tamaki, 58, held an inaugural press conference in the Prefectural Office’s special conference room. At the beginning of the press conference Tamaki made a statement as the new governor, “I will follow...
October 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 3 Denny Tamaki, after his election but prior to assuming office as governor of Okinawa, visited the sit-in at the front of the gate to Camp Schwab in Henoko, Nago City. As rain fell, about 130 gathered citizens smiled and...
September 19, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Over the course of three days starting on September 14, the Ryukyu Shimpo conducted a telephone public opinion poll jointly with the Okinawa Television Broadcasting Company (OTV) and JX Press Corporation.
The poll revealed that about 70...
October 1, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On October 1 local citizens opposing construction of the Henoko base held a protest in front of the gate to Camp Schwab.
Protestors raised their voices in support of Denny Tamaki, who was just elected governor of Okinawa on September...
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