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Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 15, 2018
Abe Cabinet climbs to 41.7% in latest opinion poll
Public support for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has climbed to 41.7 percent this month, up 3.2 points from August and surpassing the disapproval rate for the first time in seven months, an opinion poll showed Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 11, 2018
U.S. base relocation top issue in Okinawa gubernatorial election
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's death last month at age 67 from pancreatic cancer came just over three months before the originally scheduled gubernatorial election and just days after he announced the prefectural government would take steps toward retracting permission for landfill work related to a new...
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 9, 2018
Okinawans vote in key local municipal assembly elections; U.S. base issue tops Nago residents' balloting
Voters in 25 Okinawan cities, towns and villages went to the polls Sunday in key local municipal assembly elections ahead of the Sept. 30 gubernatorial election.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2018
New Zealand deploys patrol plane to Japan for North Korea sanctions enforcement
New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said on Friday his government was deploying a maritime patrol aircraft to Japan to assist with efforts to enforce United Nations sanctions against North Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 4, 2018
Fishermen to seek ¥93 million in damages over February dumping of fuel tanks by U.S. fighter jet
Fishermen in northeastern Japan are set to seek about ¥93 million in damages over the February dumping of fuel tanks by a U.S. fighter jet, which forced them to halt fishing, a local Defense Ministry bureau said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 2, 2018
Pro- and anti-base candidates kick off campaigns for Nago assembly in Okinawa
Official campaigning kicked off Sunday for the Nago Municipal Assembly election in Okinawa Prefecture, with the planned construction there of a new U.S. military base to facilitate the closure of an unpopular airfield elsewhere in the prefecture a hot-button issue.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 29, 2018
Denny Tamaki, successor-designate of late anti-base governor, declares candidacy in Okinawa race
Lawmaker Denny Tamaki, who was reportedly designated by Okinawa's late anti-U.S. base governor, Takeshi Onaga, as his successor, formally declared his candidacy for the gubernatorial election.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 20, 2018
Liberal Party exec Denny Tamaki eyes run for Okinawa governor
Lawmaker Denny Tamaki hinted he might enter the Okinawa gubernatorial race next month at the request of a group opposed to the relocation of a U.S. military base.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 19, 2018
Okinawa referendum could bring clarity
A prefectural vote would give all residents a voice on the Futenma relocation plan.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 13, 2018
With U.S. Futenma base issue on the line, vote to replace late Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga set for Sept. 30
The contentious relocation plan for the U.S. Futenma airbase will likely be at the heart of the campaign.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2018
70,000 protest U.S. base plan in honor of late Okinawa governor
The rally took place just days after the death of Gov. Takeshi Onaga, who fiercely opposed the plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Nago.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 10, 2018
Okinawa to proceed with late governor's move to block U.S. base construction
The Okinawa Prefectural Government held a hearing with local Defense Ministry officials on Thursday over its plan, announced by late Gov. Takeshi Onaga, to revoke permission for land reclamation during construction of a U.S. military base in the Henoko coastal district of the city of Nago.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2018
Okinawa's governor moves to retract landfill work approval needed to move Futenma base
The order is seen as a last-ditch effort to block the central government's long-delayed plan to move the unpopular base.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 29, 2018
U.S. government to pay compensation to family of murdered Okinawan woman
The U.S. government has agreed to pay compensation to the family of a slain Okinawan woman in place of the former U.S. base worker convicted of murdering her in 2016, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2018
U.S. F-15 fighters resume flight training just 2 days after crash off Okinawa
U.S. F-15 fighter jets resumed their flight training operations Wednesday, just two days after an F-15 crashed into the sea off Okinawa and training with the planes was subsequently suspended, the Defense Ministry said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2018
Work at planned Okinawa U.S. base site to start in August
The government said Tuesday it will start earth-filling work on Aug. 17 at a planned U.S. military base site in Okinawa Prefecture.
JAPAN
May 30, 2018
U.S. F-22 fighter jets temporarily deploy to Okinawa base
The first jets in an air wing of advanced U.S. stealth F-22 fighters that is temporarily being deployed to Japan arrived Wednesday at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture, according to Japanese government sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 11, 2018
Okinawa protesters march against plan for U.S. base ahead of anniversary of prefecture's reversion to Japan
Protesters begin a three-day march against the relocation plan for a contentious U.S. Marine Corps base ahead of the 46th anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japanese control.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 6, 2018
Japan's plan to send SDF team to ensure helicopter safety at U.S. base in Okinawa bogs down
Japan's plan to send Self-Defense Forces personnel to a U.S. Marine base in Okinawa following several helicopter mishaps in the region earlier this year has hit a snag due to U.S. reluctance, a Japanese government source said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2018
Landfill work connected to Futenma base transfer in Okinawa set to start in July
The government in July plans to begin land reclamation work at the site of a controversial U.S. military base transfer in Okinawa Prefecture, sources said Saturday.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
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