June 28, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (Noboru Akamine, speaker) unanimously passed a resolution and opinion statement June 28 at their regular session in protest after a U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing on Tsuken Island in Uruma on June 2, demanding a halt to all U.S. military flights and training exercises in the airspace over private property. The protest resolution was addressed to the U.S. to people such as the U.S. ambassador in...
June 24, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo—On June 23, Okinawa Memorial Day, local assembly members across Japan submitted a request to the government to refrain from using collected soil that was recently found to be containing human remains from the Battle of Okinawa. The request was...
June 22, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – Minister of state for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs Taro Kono took part in a COVID-19 workplace inoculation program for government employees in Tokyo June 21, the first day of the program. Kono wore a Kariyushi shirt with an island...
June 4, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 3, the Novel Coronavirus Task Force of Okinawa held a meeting and announced that it had been decided on a prefectural level to, as a rule, close prefectural schools for two weeks from June 7-20. On June 4, an online meeting will be held to hear...
April 22, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
There is currently a plan to use soil from the southern part of Okinawa Island, where the Battle of Okinawa was fought, in the construction of the Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF) in Henoko, Nago City. As concerns this plan, on April 21 Takamatsu...
April 16, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 15, the prefectural assembly (chaired by Noboru Akamine) opened an extraordinary meeting and unanimously passed a written opinion to request that soil, in which are mixed the remains of the war dead from the Battle of Okinawa, not be used...
March 31, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 31 the Bankoku Shinryo Conference on U.S. Military Base Issues (Bankoku Shinryo, meaning: bridge between nations) delivered its proposal for reducing the base burden on Okinawa, which includes the compiled discussions of the Conference from...
March 30, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Prefecture announced a special emergency policy March 29 to help contain the spread of COVID-19, asking for strict observance of pandemic prevention measures for seasonal events starting in April such as the tomb-sweeping festival (shimi)...
March 18, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Due to aircraft noise and a foul odor coming from Kadena Air Base and increasing in severity on and after March 15, Mayor Hiroshi Toyama of Kadena Town visited Director General Toshinori Tanaka of the Okinawa Defense Bureau at said Bureau on March...
March 10, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of March 10, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) stationed at Naha Air Base in Okinawa conducted, at Kadena Air Base, its first mobilization/deployment training with the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) surface-to-air missile system. The training...
March 6, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yukinao Chinen
Tokyo – The Japanese government is planning to enact a bill with the current Diet that would further restrict the sale of land around facilities that are important for security. They confirmed the outline for this bill on...
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