February 3, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On February 2, for the first time since regaining the premiership, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Okinawa to meet Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima at a hotel in Naha. While Nakaima expressed his gratitude to Abe for meeting Okinawan requests for about 300 billion yen in development funding for the prefecture in its draft fiscal 2013 budget, he again requested that the central government relocate Futenma Air Station outside of the prefecture. Abe reiterated...
February 1, 2013 Hideki Matsudo of the Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
On December 30, in a written statement submitted to a hearing of the Senate Arms Services Committee, Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator who has been nominated to become defense secretary in the second...
January 29, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 28, the mayors of the municipalities in Okinawa and representatives of the protest rally executive committee visited Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official residence to give him a petition requesting that the U.S. and Japanese governments rescind the...
January 23, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the afternoon on January 22, Okinawan leaders held a rally at the Naha Civic Hall to request that the U.S. and Japanese governments rescind the deployment of the Osprey to Okinawa.
About 1300 people participated in the rally. They criticized the U.S....
January 28, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 27, the mayors or representatives of all 41 municipalities in Okinawa, the head of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly and representatives of the rally executive committee went to Tokyo to participate in the rally held at the Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall....
January 17, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the afternoon of January 16, at the Naha Municipal Office, the U.S. Consul-General in Okinawa Alfred R. Magleby met Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga in order to apologize for the series of crimes that U.S. servicemen committed at the end of last year.
The consul-general...
January 15, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 14, nine U.S. F-22 Raptor stealth fighters flew in to Kadena Air Base. The U.S. Air Force plans to deploy a total of twelve of these aircraft to Kadena within the next four months, with the remaining three aircraft coming on January 15.
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January 7, 2013 Hideki Matsudo of the Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
On January 2, the Marine Corps Times reported that the U.S. Marines have considered establishing a new jungle training facility near to continental United States. The Jungle Warfare Training Center (JWTC) is currently...
January 11, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 11, at the Press Club in the Okinawa Prefectural Government office, Teruo Hiyane, professor emeritus of the University of the Ryukyus, Ishihara Masaie, professor emeritus of the Okinawa International University and other prominent intellectuals held...
January 13, 2013 Hideki Matsudo of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
In a press conference held in the Department of Defense on January 11, Michael Donley, secretary of the United States Air Force, has commented on the plan to deploy the CV-22 Osprey, an air-force variant of the MV-22...
January 1, 2013 Yoko Shima of the Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) is putting together an Okinawa population growth plan for fiscal year 2013. It estimates that the population of the prefecture will peak in 2025, before then starting to decline. The OPG wants to avert...
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