110,000 rally in Okinawa against gov't stance on war suicide

NAHA, Japan - People stage a rally in Okinawa on Sept. 29, demanding that the education ministry retract its instruction to publishers that they remove from history textbooks references to the Japanese military forcing civilians to commit mass suicides during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. The rally was the largest in Okinawa since the island was returned to Japan by the United States in 1972, organizers said. (Kyodo)

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000037396

Registered date
2007/9/29 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
1788 × 1228 pixel

Resolution
72 dpi

Deployment size
442.18(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

47th anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japan

Photo shows a main street in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 15, 1972, when the United States returned it to Japanese sovereignty. Japan's southern island prefecture marked the 47th anniversary of its reversion to the country on May 15, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

47th anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japan

People call for peace and autonomy at a rally in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 15, 1972, when the United States returned Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty. Japan's southern island prefecture marked the 47th anniversary of its reversion to the country on May 15, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

1st U.N. indigenous peoples' conference

NEW YORK, United States - People originally from Japan's Okinawa Prefecture and currently living in the United States hold a rally in front of U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 22, 2014, to voice opposition to the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within Okinawa. The two-day World Conference on Indigenous Peoples began the same day at U.N. headquarters.

Suga meets with Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

NAHA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (L) shakes hands with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima on Sept. 17, 2014, in Japan's southwestern city of Naha, Okinawa. During their meeting, Suga told Nakaima that they are "on the same page" about the planned transfer of a key U.S. military base in the southern island prefecture, saying dangers posed by the facility to local people should be removed.

People rally in Naha against Gov. Nakaima's approval of landfill work

NAHA, Japan - People protest against Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima's approval of landfill work for the relocation of the U.S. military's Futenma air base within the prefecture at a square in front of the Okinawa prefectural government office in Naha on Dec. 28, 2013. Some 700 people rallied there one day after Nakaima announced his approval of the central government plan.

People rally in Naha against Gov. Nakaima's approval of landfill work

NAHA, Japan - People hold a banner at a rally in front of the Okinawa prefectural government office in Naha on Dec. 28, 2013, in protest against Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima's approval of landfill work for the relocation of the U.S. military's Futenma air base within the prefecture. Some 700 people rallied there one day after Nakaima announced his approval of the central government plan.

Japan, China in verbal war at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Li Baodong (L), Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 27, 2012, as part of a verbal war between top officials from Japan and China. After Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Kazuo Kodama, the Japanese deputy ambassador to the United Nations, exchanged words over the sovereignty of a cluster of islands in the East China Sea, Li said in his subsequent rebuttal, "The recent so-called island purchase by the Japanese government is nothing different from money laundering."

Japan, U.S. discuss Osprey issue

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2012, to hold talks with Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba on the safety of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft, planned to be deployed in Okinawa Prefecture. Roos told Gemba that the United States will make maximum efforts to ensure the Osprey's safety, Gemba later told reporters.

Japan, U.S. discuss Osprey issue

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba meets the press after holding talks with U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos on the safety of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft, planned to be deployed in Okinawa Prefecture, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2012. Roos told Gemba that the United States will make maximum efforts to ensure the Osprey's safety, Gemba told reporters.

Japan to have jurisdiction over some U.S. military-linked inciden

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 23, 2011, shows the site where a 24-year-old U.S. civilian military base employee caused a fatal traffic accident in January in Okinawa, Okinawa Prefecture, in southern Japan. Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said Nov. 24 that Japan and the United States have agreed to partly change a bilateral arrangement concerning U.S. military personnel, allowing Japan to have jurisdiction over accidents and crimes involving civilian staff at U.S. bases under certain circumstances. The traffic accident is expected to be the first case subjected to the change. (Kyodo)