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By Ju-min Park

Older voters are mostly sticking with left-wing parties, mindful of Okinawa's past as one of the bloodiest battlegrounds of World War II.

JAPAN-ELECTION/YOUTH-OKINAWA (FEATURE, PIX):FEATURE-In Japan's Okinawa, ruling party's tough China stance helps win young voters

Former Japanese minister of state for Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs Aiko Shimajiri fist-bumps supporters as she walks into a rally at a bullring in Uruma, Japan, as she relishes the prospect of pulling off an upset victory in tomorrow’s parliamentary vote. Nationwide, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is expected to lose seats in the Japanese House of Representatives, the lower, but more powerful chamber of the Japanese Diet, due largely to voter dissatisfaction over the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in Okinawa Prefecture — long a bastion of the pacifist oppositio...

Police say a woman scaled a fence at Camp Foster at approximately 12:20 a.m. Saturday and was caught riding a bicycle there.