February 21, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga held a conference to exchange ideas with Japan’s House of Councillors’ Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense (Shingo Miyake, Chairman), at the Okinawa Prefectural Office February 20, while the committee was visiting Okinawa. Ichiro Tsukada...
February 16, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – Japanese Minister of Defense Itsunori Onodera spoke at a press conference concerning the accident wherein an engine intake falling from an MV-22 Osprey February 16.
Regarding the issue of the late notification from...
February 11, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Former Minister of Defense Fumio Kyuma, who was also the director-general of the Defense Agency at the time of the Special Action Committee on Okinawa (SACO) final report and when the agreement to build on the shore on Camp Schwab...
February 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
The Nago City mayoral election, which has become a major battleground in the ongoing dispute over the relocation of MCAS Futenma to Henoko, went to the polls on February 4. Newcomer Taketoyo Toguchi 56, won the election with 20,389 votes. Toguchi...
February 2, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 1 the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly unanimously adopted a protest resolution and written statement at an extraordinary session in response to issues with U.S. military helicopters.
These issues include recent successive...
January 27, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Fumiaki Matsumoto, vice minister for the Cabinet Office from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the afternoon of January 26, one day after inappropriately mocking the recent U.S. military helicopter troubles...
January 19, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
In response to consecutive emergency landings of U.S. Marine Corps helicopters, the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly held an extraordinary plenary session on the morning of January 19 and unanimously passed a protest resolution and opinion...
January 18, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced on the afternoon of January 18 that three U.S. military helicopters flew over Futenma Daini Elementary School in Ginowan City earlier that day.
It was the same elementary school where,...
January 9, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of January 9 Governor Takeshi Onaga gave his response to the recent consecutive emergency landings of U.S. Marine Corps helicopters on Ikeijima and in Yomitan Village.
He said, “I am truly at a loss for words....
At 10:00 a.m. on January 11,
Uruma City Council President Seizen Ohya held an emergency meeting.
In this meeting, the city council unanimously came to a decision and created a memorandum regarding the forced landing of an U.S. military aircraft that took place...
January 9, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
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