June 1, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
The National Association of Chairpersons of City Councils adopted a resolution requesting a drastic revision of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) at a meeting held in Tokyo on May 31.
The organization represents over 800 chairpersons of city councils. The association will lobby the government to revise the SOFA.
Minoru Yabiku, the chairperson of the Nago City Council, explained the purpose of the resolution, referring to the recent death...
May 29, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 28, Lieutenant General Lawrence Nicholson, Okinawa Area Coordinator for the U.S. military and the top official of the U.S. forces in Okinawa, spoke to Governor Takeshi Onaga by telephone. Lieutenant General Nicholson announced to Governor Onaga that in the...
May 29, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Sakae Toiyama in Washington, D.C.
On May 26, Arizona-based environmental organization the Center for Biological Diversity issued a statement against the construction of a new U.S. base in Henoko in Nago, where the governments of Japan and the United States...
May 26, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ryota Nakamura
On the evening of May 25, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with United States President Obama in Shima of Mie Prefecture and held a joint press conference. Regarding the recent incident of a woman’s body being disposed of by a U.S. military...
May 27, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
At an extraordinary session of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly opened on May 26, both the ruling party in the Assembly and those belonging to other parties unanimously agreed on a resolution of protest and a written argument against the recent incident of a woman’s...
May 19, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, who is currently visiting the U.S. held a meeting with Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations Thad Cochran on May 17. Onaga requested that the U.S. government listen directly to Okinawan residents in order to resolve the...
May 24, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of May 23, Governor Takeshi Onaga of Okinawa went to Tokyo to visit Kantei (the official residence of the Prime Minister) in order to make an appeal related to, and to protest, the recent discovery of Okinawan woman’s corpse that had been abandoned...
May 24, 2016Ryukyu Shimpo
Regarding the recent arrest of a U.S. military employee on suspicion of disposing of a woman’s body, Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on May 23 at the Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Tokyo. Onaga protested the incident,...
May 19, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Sakae Toiyama in Washington D.C.
On May 18, Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga met with former Vice President Walter Mondale, who served as Ambassador to Japan, while on an official trip to the United States. Then Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and then U.S....
May 28, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Hisao Tome in Washington D.C.
On May 16, in Washington D.C, Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga met with four members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
According to Governor Onaga, Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a member of the House Appropriations...
May 7, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of May 7, former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama visited the sit-in-protest site in front of the gate of Camp Schwab at Henoko in Nago. He encouraged citizens staging a protest against the construction of a new U.S. base, which is part of plans to relocate...
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