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EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2015
Onaga vs. the central government
The national government's bullheadedness on the Futenma relocation is making a bitter court battle inevitable.
EDITORIALS
Sep 20, 2015
Onaga's challenge on Henoko
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga might lose the legal battle that's likely coming over his revocation of landfill approval for the Futenma replacement base, but Tokyo would be wise to consider the public sentiment behind his move.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 13, 2015
Legal battle over Futenma base relocation increasingly likely
The central government and the Okinawa Prefectural Government appear headed for a legal battle over the transfer of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, after the state restarted work Saturday to relocate the base within the prefecture.
EDITORIALS
Sep 11, 2015
Discouraging end to Henoko talks
The lack of progress in talks between the national government and the Okinawan government over the Futenma relocation plan was unsurprising, given the Abe administration's unwillingness to pay heed to anti-base sentiment in Okinawa.
EDITORIALS
Aug 14, 2015
Okinawa hiatus must be productive
While work for the Futenma base replacement in Okinawa is suspended for a month, the Abe administration should not use the occasion as a mere political gesture and instead should listen sincerely to what Gov. Takeshi Onaga has to say.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 16, 2015
Panel finds 'flaws' in Henoko landfill approval
As the Lower House passed controversial security bills Thursday designed to deepen Japan's military ties with the United States, Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga moved a step closer to halting work on a controversial new U.S. air base after an advisory panel found serious flaws in the approval process.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 31, 2015
Nago: What should the world learn from the Battle of Okinawa?
Jon Mitchell speaks to locals and visitors in Nago, the proposed site of a new base to replace the U.S. Marines' Futenma facility.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 30, 2015
The Battle of Okinawa: America's good war gone bad
Seventy years after the final epic clash of World War II, has the U.S. betrayed the ideals its service members died fighting for?
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2015
Battle looms over Futenma
The standoff over construction of a replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma threatens to develop into an all-out legal battle between the Abe administration and Okinawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 23, 2015
Okinawa governor threatens to pull plug on landfill work for Futenma replacement
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga tells the Okinawa Defense Bureau to suspend 'any act that changes the status quo of the seabed' and warns he may revoke permission for land reclamation unless the bureau stops the work within a week.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 23, 2015
U.S. Marines official dismissed over Okinawa protest video leak
The Pentagon has reportedly dismissed a senior U.S. Marine Corps official in Okinawa following the leak of on-base surveillance video to a Japanese neo-nationalist group.

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