April 20, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 20, the “Protest rally against Japan’s participation in talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPP) was held at Tedako Hall in Urasoe in order to protect food, agriculture and people’s livelihoods in Okinawa.
According to the organizers, the Okinawa branch of the Food, Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Forum, 1000 protesters participated in the rally, including people involved in agriculture, forestry...
March 31, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
After Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima submitted a written statement of opinion on the environmental impact assessment report (EIA) on the plan to construct an alternative facility for the relocation of Futenma Air Station to Henoko, Nago, and demanded the relocation...
March 28, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 27, a representative of the Civil Engineering and Construction Division of the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) submitted a written statement of opinion from Governor of Okinawa Hirokazu Nakaima to Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) with regard to the land...
March 18, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada, who visited Okinawa for the first time since he was appointed, met Ginowan mayor Atsushi Sakima in the municipal office on March 17. Okada insisted that maintenance and repair work on U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is...
March 20, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
From March 1, the Kadena Air Base north runway, which had been the focus of construction work, became operational again, causing further aircraft noise for the neighborhood. In the closest district to the north runway, at a place called Yara in Kadena Town, a noise...
March 15, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva has decided to send a letter to the Japanese government requesting an explanation of the situation regarding the plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko, Nago,...
March 13, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
With regard to the omoiyari yosan, the financial burden that Japan pays towards the cost of U.S. forces stationed on its territory, for the 33 years from fiscal 1979 to 2011, the number of cases in which the Ministry of Defense carried out maintenance and repair...
March 8 2012, Ryukyu Shimpo
The return and relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma was agreed upon by the United States and Japan in the Special Action Committee on Okinawa (SACO) in December 1996. It has been revealed that in the years since the agreement, from its defense budget,...
March 2, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) has hired Yukie Yoshikawa as a senior research fellow in the Regional Security Policy Division (provisional name), the new division to conduct research and gather information about Japan-U.S. security issues, which will be...
March 2 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 1, the Ginowan City Council held its regular meeting for March 2012. In his policy speech, newly-elected Ginowan mayor, Atsushi Sakima, voiced his opposition to the deployment of the MV-22 Osprey vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft to the U.S....
February 27, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the morning of February 27, during his visit to Okinawa, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda met Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima at the Okinawa Prefectural Office.
With regard to the return and relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Nakaima...
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