• Prefectural Assembly elections were held in Okinawa Prefecture on 5 June 2016. The election resulted in victory to the camp supporting Governor Takeshi...
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    The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (Japanese: 沖縄県議会, Hepburn: Okinawa-kengikai) is the prefectural parliament of Okinawa. Its 48 members are elected every...
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    Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese: 沖縄県, Hepburn: Okinawa-ken) is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan. It has a population of 1,457,162 (as...
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    ニシバル, romanized: Nishibaru) is a town located in Nakagami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. In the Okinawan language, nishi means "north" (in standard...
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    (宮古島市, Miyakojima-shi, Miyako: Myaaku, Okinawan: Naaku) is a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, located on the Miyako Islands. As of 2012, it had a population...
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    local elections today. Prefectural and municipal assemblies are unicameral, the National Diet is bicameral, with the two houses on independent election cycles...
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    Naval Base Okinawa, now Naval Facility Okinawa, is a number of bases built after the Battle of Okinawa by United States Navy on Okinawa Island, Japan....
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    Relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (category Okinawa Prefecture articles missing geocoordinate data)
    happening." The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly adopted a resolution by a 24–21 vote calling for Nakaima's resignation, stating that he broke an election promise...
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    total area of the prefecture comprised designated Natural Parks, namely: Akame Ichishikyō Prefectural Natural Park Ise-no-Umi Prefectural Natural Park Ise-Shima...
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    Nago (redirect from Nago, Okinawa)
    Kunigami: ナグー Naguu) is a city located in the northern part of Okinawa Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of December 2012, the city has an estimated population...
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  • conducted prefectural public opinion surveys for voters in the prefecture. It claimed that 82% of Okinawa citizens chose "I'm glad that Okinawa has returned...
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    2016 election results: Miyazaki Yomiuri Online, 2016 election results: Kagoshima Yomiuri Online, 2016 election results: Okinawa Yomiuri Online, 2016 election...
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    NHK Okinawa Broadcasting Station (NHK沖縄放送局, NHK Okinawa Hoso Kyoku) is a unit of the NHK that oversees terrestrial broadcasting in Okinawa Prefecture. The...
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    the Okinawa Times. Her uncle, Takao Ganaha, was the co-representative of the "Okinawa People's Association for Straightening Out the Prefectural Government...
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    (in Japanese) Yamaguchi Prefectural Assembly: Electoral districts and district magnitudes (in Japanese) Yamaguchi Prefectural Assembly: Composition by...
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  • Okayama prefectural government, election commission, May 25: 岡山県知事選挙等の日程を決定しました Archived 2016-06-02 at the Wayback Machine Toyama prefectural government...
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    Keiichi Inamine (category Politicians from Okinawa Prefecture)
    as the fifth Governor of Okinawa from 1998 until 2006. He studied at, and graduated from, Keio University. Okinawa election again boils down to two themes...
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    U.S. military bases wins Okinawa gubernatorial election". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-10-17. "Tamaki's big win in Okinawa deals 'too harsh a blow'...
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    Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (category United States Armed Forces in Okinawa Prefecture)
    Ginowan residents' blood but the USMC did not grant permission to Okinawa Prefectural authorities to inspect the base. Special interest groups, including...
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    represented in the national Diet from 2005 to 2008, merged with the PNP Okinawa prefectural federation in 2012, keeping its name Japan has other minor parties...
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    Mitsuo Matayoshi (category People from Okinawa Prefecture)
    of Ginowan election (1997) 1998 Japanese House of Councillors election (Okinawa at-large district) Governor of Okinawa Prefecture election (1998) Mayor...
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    previous election was held in June 2013. The LDP won 36% of the vote and 59 of 127 seats in the 2013 Tokyo prefectural election. In the previous election of...
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    Takeshi Onaga (category Members of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly)
    politician and the seventh Governor of Okinawa Prefecture from 2014 to 2018. Onaga served as a member of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly from 1992 to 1996 and...
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    Organizations Media Total endorsements: 10 44 prefectural LDP branches held primaries, while the prefectural federations in Hokkaido and Niigata conducted...
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    elected every three years. At these elections 121 members were elected. Of these 73 were elected from the 47 prefectural districts and 48 were elected from...
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    "Outline of Boryokudan in Okinawa Prefecture" Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, October 2007, Okinawa Prefectural Police (in Japanese) "Tokyo...
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    reforms split Okinawa's at-large constituency into four single-district constituencies. In the first three elections after the reforms, Okinawa's 1st district...
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    Shimojishima Airport (category Airports in Okinawa)
    Shimojishima in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It has the longest runway of any island in Japan south of the main island of Okinawa. Mitsubishi Estate...
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    following the four main islands and Okinawa Island. Until after the Meiji Restoration, the area that is now Niigata Prefecture was divided into Echigo Province...
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    first single-seat constituency seat since the 1996 election. Amidst a growing anti-base movement in Okinawa, JCP candidate Seiken Akamine unseated LDP incumbent...
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