A referendum was held in Okinawa Prefecture on 24 February 2019. The referendum asked whether voters approved or opposed the landfill work at Henoko Bay...

COVID-19 pandemic, calling it inadequate. In the lead up to the 2019 Okinawan referendum on landfill work at Henoko Bay for the expansion of the base in...

debate. Over 70% of voters in Okinawa opposed the relocation in the 2019 Okinawan referendum. Tamaki supported the complete removal of the base, while Sakima...

results of the referendum, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed for an understanding by Okinawan citizens for the relocation of the base. Some Okinawan voters claimed...

and transferred the power over Okinawan land leases to the Prime Minister, ignored the 1997 Nago City citizens' referendum (which had rejected the new base)...

nation. Osaka has the highest crime rates in Japan.[citation not found] The Okinawan prefecture is home to 74% of all US bases in the country and around 26...

the Ryukyus, including the island of Okinawa (home to over 1 million Okinawans related to the Japanese), the Bonin Islands, and the Volcano Islands (including...

if approved, are to be presented to the people for ratification in a referendum before being promulgated by the Emperor, in the name of the people. The...

Ryukyuan (a branch of modern Okinawan) people had their own state historically (Ryukyu Kingdom). Although some Okinawan people have sought independence...

educational support. Besides Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages (Amami, Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama, Yonaguni), part of the Japonic language family, are spoken...

– Japanese drama film inspired by the true story of Hikaru Oshiro, an Okinawan altruist who founded the "Ajisai Ongaku Mura", a music village that is...

of a 1997 referendum where the majority voted to reject a replacement facility. In opposition to this, in September 2003, a group of Okinawan, Japanese...

regional capital, and numerous Japanese (including ethnic Koreans and Okinawan and Taiwanese) migrated to the islands. In the December 1939 census, the...

Ming dynasty China, begun by Chūzan in 1372, and enjoyed by the three Okinawan kingdoms which followed it. China provided ships for Ryukyu's maritime...

proposal for a new site in Henoko Bay, Nago, has faced opposition from Okinawans and the local government who wish for the new base to be located off the...

the event, which was attended by Emperor Akihito, was denounced by many Okinawans, who saw it as celebrating a betrayal. There were demonstrations in both...

local woman, have fueled protests and calls for troop withdrawal. In 2019, a referendum saw over 70% oppose relocating Futenma Air Station to Henoko Bay,...

following a referendum in which at least 93% of voters approved of statehood. By then, most voters were not Native Hawaiian. The 1959 referendum did not have...

committed by U.S. soldiers occupying Okinawa was also a notable phenomenon. Okinawan historian Oshiro Masayasu (former director of the Okinawa Prefectural Historical...

an opposition-supported candidate. Aiko Shimajiri, state minister for Okinawan affairs, lost her seat to former Ginowan, Okinawa mayor Yoichi Iha, a critic...

free bakeries & cafés. In 2004, he earned a black belt in the traditional Okinawan Goju Ryu; he has also been part of a long-running advertising campaign...

freedom of speech in the Constitution of Japan. On 26 October 1987, an Okinawan supermarket owner burned the Hinomaru, before the start of the National...

People from Okinawa were also coming to the city, and in 1924, the oldest Okinawans Association in Japan was founded in Kawasaki. As part of World War II...

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Books disappearances. In November 2019, Chan Ho-tin of the Hong Kong National Party sent a video message to Okinawans, stating, "I understand the sentiments...

Yekaterinburg – known as Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union. Yonashiro – changed from Okinawan "Yonagusuku" to a Japanese name and elevated to town status in 1994. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...

Oak becomes shipwrecked off the coast of Okinawa and a junk is built by Okinawan peoples for the survivors. 1842. On the basis of the British naval victory...

Osorio, 58, former President of El Salvador Keisai Aoki, 75, Japanese Okinawan missionary The Apollo 9 astronauts completed the most critical part of...

December 13, "an overflow crowd of GIs" watched the normal show, plus an Okinawan folk song group that told the crowd, "We do not like the American military...

History of The Royal Canadian Regiment, 1953–2008. Dundurn Press. p. 92. "Okinawans Demand Ouster of General". The New York Times. New York City. The New...