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Mar 7, 2013
Worrisome Osprey training flights
The U.S. Marine Corps begins training flights for its tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft in western Japan, but not without making a sudden flight-route change.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2013
Osprey training flights over Japan to observe aviation rules: U.S. Marine Corps
Training flights for tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft over Japan's main islands this week will be conducted on existing routes used by U.S. military planes while abiding by domestic aviation regulations, a U.S. Marine Corps officer said Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 1, 2013
U.S. to hold Osprey training over Japan's main islands next week
The United States will conduct training flights of Osprey aircraft over the main islands next week, Lt. Gen. Samuel Angelella, the top commander of the U.S. military in Japan, said Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2013
Anti-Osprey group set to disband
Saying it has "served a certain mission," the organizing committee of a major rally against the deployment last year of MV-22 Ospreys to a U.S. air base in Okinawa announced Friday it will disband.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2013
Rare Okinawa plants transplanted due to helipad projects perish: papers
Over 60 percent of rare plant species, including endangered ones, that were transplanted due to the construction of U.S. military helicopter landing and takeoff sites in Okinawa have died, documents showed Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2013
GSDF personnel train on Ospreys for the first time
Ground Self-Defense Force personnel boarded MV-22 Osprey aircraft for training for the first time Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2013
Okinawa leaders urge Abe to remove Osprey
About 30 municipal heads in Okinawa urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday to rescind the government's approval of the MV-22 Osprey deployment at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2012
Scholar tries to ease Okinawa's U.S. pains
Three years ago, Robert Eldridge gave up his associate professorship at Osaka University to work on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa. He said he thought he could make bigger contributions to U.S.-Japan relations in the prefecture than by teaching about the U.S.-Japan alliance to students at...

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