GSDF and U.S. reached secret deal in 2015 to station amphibious unit in Okinawa Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Ground Self-Defense Force personnel conduct an amphibious drill with the U.S. Marines at the Blue Beach training area in Kin, Okinawa Prefecture, in February 2020. | KYODO
Kyodo Jan 25, 2021
The Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps reached a secret agreement in 2015 to station a GSDF amphibious unit at the Marines’ Camp Schwab in the Henoko district of Okinawa Prefecture, according to Japanese and U.S. government sources.
Hosting U.S. jets brought free school meals to Iwakuni, but some question the trade-off Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
School lunches for students at elementary and junior high schools in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, have been provided for free since 2018 due to the city s hosting of fighter jets at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. | NISHINIPPON SHIMBUN
Nishinippon Shimbun Jan 22, 2021
Elementary and junior high schools in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, home to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, have been providing free school lunches since April 2018.
Okinawans and former North Korea abductees urge Biden to take initiative Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
A protester in a canoe holds up a sign against land reclamation work for the planned relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Henoko coastal area of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture last month. | KYODO
Kyodo Jan 22, 2021
Anti-U.S. base groups in Okinawa, Japanese nationals previously abducted by North Korea and the relatives of abductees on Thursday urged the new U.S. administration under President Joe Biden to take the initiative in resolving their respective issues.
LDP loses first of series of Okinawa polls in blow to Suga government Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Jiji Jan 18, 2021
Miyakojima, Okinawa Pref. – A candidate supported by the ruling bloc has lost to an opposition-backed rival in the first of a series of mayoral elections in Okinawa Prefecture, in a blow to the government of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the run-up to next year’s Okinawa gubernatorial election.
In the mayoral poll in the city of Miyakojima on Sunday, Kazuyuki Zakimi, 71, an independent supported by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party, defeated incumbent Mayor Toshihiko Shimoji, 75, who also ran as an independent candidate and was backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito.