December 24, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
Hiroji Yamashiro, the director of the Okinawa Peace Movement Center, who was arrested on October 17, has been prosecuted and is now being detained for his involvement in protests against new U.S. base construction in Henoko, Nago and Helipad construction in the U.S. marines’ Northern Training Area (NTA) in Takae, Higashi. He responded to interview requests made by the Ryukyu Shimpo through a lawyer who has been representing him.
On December 24,...
November 4, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
At 8:45 a.m. on November 3, Muneyoshi Kayo, who was a member of sit-in protest group “Inochi wo mamoru kai,” which protests the relocation of the Futenma Air Station to Henoko, Nago, passed away at a hospital in Ginoza Village at the age of 94 due to pneumonia....
September 18, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
The National Liaison Council of seven groups of plaintiffs filing lawsuits over noise pollution from military bases held its 4th general meeting on September 18 at Akisihima City Hall in Tokyo.
The council adopted a resolution to oppose military bases’...
September 7, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 6, at the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court, the first argument for an appeal trial in which plaintiffs are demanding an apology and compensation from the government to be granted to Battle of Okinawa war victims was held.
The government’s...
July 12, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
At 6:00 a.m. on July 11, one night after the Upper House election ended, the Okinawa Defense Bureau re-started preparation work for construction of U.S. Marine Corps helipads in Takae, Higashi.
About 100 riot police and about 20 security guards employed by...
July 4, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
Robert Nakasone, a resident of Hawaii who is a second-generation Okinawan visited the sit-in protest site in front of the gate of Camp Schwab in Henoko, Nago on July 2. He presented Hawaiian leis to citizens protesting against the construction of a new U.S. base in...
July 3, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
July 2 was the first weekend after the end of a period of mourning imposed on U.S. forces in Okinawa following the suspected rape and murder of a woman by a U.S. military contract employee who is a former U.S. marine. During the period of mourning U.S. forces banned...
June 25, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
Japan’s National Federation of UNESCO Associations opened its 72nd convention on June 25 at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan City. The convention was held for the first time in 34 years, the last being in 1982.
About 500 members from UNESCO associations...
June 9, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
Veterans For Peace (VFP)’s members, including Douglas Lummis, Daniel Broudy and Ann Wright released a statement regarding the May, 2016 crime committed against an Okinawan Woman allegedly by a former U.S. Marine in Uruma City, at a press conference held at the...
June 9, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Regarding the discovery of a woman’s body in the central part of Okinawa Island, on the afternoon of June 9, the Okinawa prefectural police re-arrested former U.S. Marine and current U.S. military employee Kenneth Franklin Shinzato (formerly Gadson),...
May 28, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Sakae Toiyama in Washington, D.C.
On May 26, in Washington, D.C., ‘CODEPINK’, a women’s group seeking peace and social justice, held a protest after an Okinawa woman was allegedly murdered by a U.S. civilian base worker, who is a former...
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