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Recent News Headlines : Okinawa

U.S. MARINE JET CRASHES OFF OKINAWA, PILOT EJECTS SAFELY

The U.S. military in Camp Butler in Okinawa said the cause of Thursday's crash is still under investigation...

THE WORLD'S OLDEST FISH-HOOKS, APPROXIMATELY 23,000 YEARS OLD, HAVE BEEN FOUND IN A CAVE ON OKINAWA ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN.

Hooks, approximately 23,000 years old, were made from the shells of sea snails and found in Sakitari cave on island...

JAPAN COURT CLEARS WAY FOR US OKINAWA BASE RELOCATION

Violent crimes have prompted large-scale protest demonstrations before on Okinawa...

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AT OKINAWA PROTEST THOUSANDS CALL FOR REMOVAL OF US BASES

Mr. Onaga has been seeking to forge a broad political coalition to reduce the United States presence...

THOUSANDS PROTEST AT US BASES ON OKINAWA AFTER JAPANESE WOMAN'S MURDER

Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island...

ABE FACES GROWING WRATH OF OKINAWANS OVER US BASE

Enough is enough, he said, referring to the year 1879, when a fledgling Japanese empire forcibly annexed Okinawa, then known as the independent Kingdom of the Ryukyus...

SUCH HIGH-PROFILE CRIMES HAVE STRAINED U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS AND JEOPARDIZE PLANS TO RELOCATE A KEY U.S. AIRBASE IN OKINAWA.

Japan's national government announced plans Friday to send 100 additional police officers and 20 new patrol cars to Okinawa by early next year to deal with base-related crime...

HUGE PROTEST ON OKINAWA OPPOSES U.S. MILITARY AFTER KILLING

Many people held signs demanding the Marines leave and the overall military on Okinawa be scaled back...

A NETWORK OF OVERLAPPING RADAR SITES ALONG THE ISLAND CHAIN WOULD BOOST JAPAN'S ABILITY TO MONITOR THE EAST CHINA SEA, HE ADDED.

Japan opens radar station close to disputed isles, drawing angry China response...

KENTA YAMADA, A PROFESSOR OF MEDIA STUDIES AT SENSHU UNIVERSITY IN TOKYO, SAID THE LDP GROUP'S REMARKS REFLECTS THEIR IGNORANCE.

At the gathering, the group also urged intellectuals to pressure Keidanren, the influential business lobby, to stop sponsoring critical media organizations...

NAWA FOUND THAT FIVE DIFFERENT CYBERSECURITY CONTRACTORS EMPLOYED BY THE AGENCY HAD DISCOVERED THE BREACH, BUT NOT ONE REPORTED OR SHARED THEIR FINDINGS.

Apart from rogue hackers, criminal organizations or even state-backed cyberwarfare units, Japan's businesses and government agencies are facing a unique cybersecurity foe themselves...

NORTH KOREA DEFIES U.N. BY FIRING LONG-RANGE ROCKET OVER OKINAWA

Tokyo condemns a purported North Korean satellite launch that is widely viewed as another covert ballistic missile test in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions...

HALF OF THE 50,000 AMERICAN MILITARY PERSONNEL IN JAPAN ARE STATIONED HERE, AND UNITED STATES FACILITIES TAKE UP ONE-FIFTH OF OKINAWAN LAND.

Okinawa Murder Case Heightens Outcry Over US Militarys Presence...

THE MOST NOTORIOUS EPISODE, THE RAPE OF A 12-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLGIRL BY THREE AMERICAN SERVICEMEN IN 1995, SET OFF MASS PROTESTS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES MILITARY PRESENCE.

I demand that the United States take strict measures to prevent something like this from happening again...

PROTEST VOICES 'OKINAWANS HAVE BEEN TREATED LIKE WE ARE DISPOSABLE FOR TOO LONG'

Almost all Okinawans want the current Marine air station further south on the the island at Futenma to be shut down...

"I FEEL THE COUNTRY'S DEMOCRACY, THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND THE FREEDOM OF PRESS ARE IN DANGER," SHIOHIRA SAID ...

"Seeing these remarks, I can't help but worry that this nation will abandon democracy and inch closer toward a totalitarian state," said Yoshikazu Shiohira .....

JAPAN'S POPULATION HAD SHRUNK BY ALMOST 1 MILLION PEOPLE IN FIVE YEARS.

And not by an inconsiderable amount either The 2010 census showed a population of 128,057,352, but the 2015 figure, released Friday, shows just 127,110,000...

TO VOICE THEIR ANGER WITH THE UNITED STATES AFTER A FORMER U.S. MARINE EMPLOYED AS A CIVILIAN BASE WORKER ALLEGEDLY RAPED AND MURDERED A YOUNG JAPANESE WOMAN IN APRIL.

He has revoked approval for work on the facility, delivering a setback to the plan, though Washington and Tokyo vow to push forward...

TYPHOON PHANFONE US SERVICEMAN KILLED IN JAPAN AND TWO MILLION ORDERED TO EVACUATE AS TYPHOON MAKES LAND

Bullet train service was suspended between Tokyo and Osaka because of the heavy rainfall, and more than 600 flights were canceled at Tokyo's Haneda Airport...

OKINAWA GOVERNOR LEAVES FOR U.N. TO COURT WORLD OPINION OVER BASE PLAN

Human Rights Council in a bid to make clear to the international community Okinawa's opposition to the building of a new U.S...

EX-US MARINE CHARGED WITH RAPE, MURDER OF OKINAWA WOMAN

The US military on Okinawa, meanwhile, imposed restrictions including a curfew and temporary curbs on alcohol consumption...

JAPAN PROBES SUSPECTED NORTH KOREAN ROCKET NOSE CONE AMID GROWING MISSILE CONCERNS

For Japan, it raises deep concern over our national security, Japan's top military commander, Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, said on Thursday in Tokyo...

IN MIDST OF CURFEW, AMERICAN SAILOR ARRESTED FOR DRUNKEN-DRIVING ON OKINAWA

In midst of curfew American sailor arrested for drunken-driving on Okinawa...

U.S DEFENSE SECRETARY APOLOGIZES AFTER AMERICAN CHARGED IN JAPANESE WOMAN'S DEATH

It also is likely to stir anti-U.S. sentiment as President Barack Obama visits Japan next week...

OBAMA SAID US WOULD COOPERATE IN INVESTIGATION OF AIRBASE WORKER KENNETH FRANKLIN SHIZATO, A CASE THAT COULD UPSET RELOCATION OF OKINAWA MILITARY BASE

Obama expresses regret over alleged murder by US base worker in Japan...

SOUTH KOREA, U.S. TO START TALKS ON ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM

Russia also opposes the deployment of THAAD in South Korea...

ARRANGING THE MEETING WOULD BE "DIFFICULT," CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY YOSHIHIDE SUGA SAID AT A NEWS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING A MEETING BETWEEN ONAGA AND ABE IN TOKYO.

Onaga is demanding the base be relocated outside Okinawa...

JAPAN TO HALT US OKINAWA BASE RELOCATION WORK BUT GOVERNMENT SAYS PLAN INTACT

He also said, however, that the government's stance on relocating the Futenma base within Okinawa had not changed, according to Reuters...

DPRK LAUNCHES SATELLITE YONHAP 1 - CHINADAILY.COM.CN

The long-range rocket was launched from DPRK's Tongchang-ri rocket launch station, Yonhap news agency reported citing South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff JCS ...

U.S. NAVY EASES DRINKING BAN IN JAPAN AFTER OKINAWA INCIDENTS

Separately, a U.S. military contractor in Okinawa has been arrested on suspicion of raping and killing a woman...

OKINAWAN PEOPLE SHOULD CONTINUE FIGHT FOR CHANGE LAWMAKER

Okinawan people should continue fight for change lawmaker 1 - Chinadaily.com.cn...

JAPANESE TELEVISION STATION NTV REPORTED MONDAY THAT JAPANESE POLICE WERE INVESTIGATING DEATH THREATS MADE BY AN ANONYMOUS CALLER AGAINST HER.

Previous Next Hide Grid Japanese police have arrested a 52-year-old man after phone threats to bomb the US embassy in Tokyo and kill ambassador Caroline Kennedy...

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